Wasteland Border Inspector

Chapter 38 Red and White Flags, An Unexpected Incident Occurs!
The carrot and stick approach has always been a tried-and-true method.

The two brothers, Cole and Hel, dared not make any move and trotted over to squat down next to Ram.

Entering the isolation ward at least offers a chance of survival, but if Cheng Ye kills them now as if they were infected, then they'll truly be left with no one to turn to for help.

"grown ups."

"Shut up!"

Upon noticing Cheng Ye approaching, Xi Mo opened his mouth only to be ruthlessly interrupted by Cheng Ye.

"You'd better bear with whatever I do from now on, or you'll be sent to quarantine, understand?"

"I understand, I understand!"

Realizing there was hope for survival, Simo's weary eyes suddenly brightened, showing a renewed vitality.

Unlike the central main checkpoint, only the temperature, heart rate, and respiratory rate of refugee survivors are checked, and anyone with abnormal data is directly isolated or expelled.

The people passing through the fast checkpoint are mostly residents of Happiness City. In order to balance efficiency and accuracy, additional testing equipment has been provided.

Cheng Ye raised his hand and swiped his identity badge across the black box on the table.

Click.

The latch popped open, revealing two brand-new instruments rarely used by the inspector, a scalpel, and a metal tray.

Dual-modal vital signs detector.

Corrosion metabolism detector.

The former allows for handheld imaging, displaying a general image of the patient's body in real time on the screen behind the machine.

The latter specializes in wound detection: under illumination by a specific wavelength of light, the infected area will exhibit visible fluorescence.

If it matches the data of the internal source of infection, the fluorescence will be a bright red; if it does not match, it will be a normal green.

It sounds like it works great, but why is it brand new?

The answer is actually quite simple: it's unnecessary.

The quarantine ward in Quarantine Zone A houses nearly 300 people. While there are infected individuals inside, at least 95% of them are healthy. Otherwise, who would dare to venture out and risk their lives?

However, few inspectors are willing to take responsibility. When faced with abnormal data and unclear reasons, they tend to directly determine it as a high risk of infection rather than conducting a step-by-step investigation, and put the person in an isolation ward for a period of time before making any further decisions.

Whether they could come out alive was never a consideration for them.

Even if an explanation is needed, there are readily available justifications:
We are thinking about the hundreds of thousands of people in the buffer zone. We can't let hundreds of thousands of people take risks just for your sake, can we?

"Can you still move?"

"can!"

"Follow my instructions and rotate your body."

The so-called dual-modality refers to the microfocus CT module and the photoacoustic imaging module.

Cheng Ye had never seen anything like it in modern times; this was the first time he had used it.

However, the displayed image is indeed quite clear, only slightly inferior to the X-ray taken at the hospital.

On the screen, a gray 3D model of a small human figure rotates back and forth, its right leg glowing with a faint red warning light.

After internal processing and magnification, the muscle fibers at the bite mark showed radial tears, and the tissue erosion at the wound edge showed large areas of low-density shadows, like a sponge corroded by strong acid.

As for the rest of the body, all of them are round or irregular high-density shadows, which are characteristic morphologies of the hemorrhage foci due to the high density of hemoglobin.

"No problem, there's only this one bite wound; the rest are bruises and abrasions."

Cheng Ye breathed a slight sigh of relief.

The narrative logic is sound, so the focus of infection detection falls on the wound presentation.

Now that there's only one wound on the leg, the chance of infection is immediately much lower.

After all, as Brother B said, the attacks of infected creatures are completely unpredictable. Once they catch a target, they will pounce on it like a mad dog and will never just focus on one part of the body.

Upper Corrosion Photometabolism Detector!

When the pale green light source shone on the leg wound, it quickly turned into a green fluorescence; no red light was observed.

This means that the injury was caused by an attack from an infected entity.

The infected entity could only be like the Rotten Vine, not having been registered in the Happiness City database.

The probability is even smaller.

"There's one last step. I need to cut a slice of your flesh. Can you handle it?"

"what?"

Simo froze, then his face lit up with uncontrollable ecstasy.

What did he hear?
The last step?
Good heavens, is this prosecutor an angel sent by God?
"Sir, please cut as you please. I can handle it even if you cut off this leg!"

"It's not that exaggerated, just a small piece is enough."

Cheng Ye forced a smile, but it wasn't to ease Ximo's emotions; rather, it was to ease his own tension.

He didn't panic when shooting the infected, because he knew in his heart that the other party was no longer human.

Subconsciously viewing it as a monster is no different from driving a wooden stake into a hole.

But the thought of operating on a living person still made him somewhat inexplicably apprehensive.

Fortunately, the scalpel in the box was exceptionally sharp. Cheng Ye found a spot on the edge of the wound and gently cut off a piece of skin about the size of a little finger.

Surprisingly, Ximo remained expressionless, which made Cheng Ye secretly marvel.

Cow batch.

If this were the older brothers from the "Candy Super Sweet" boy band, they'd probably be howling for miles by now.

"Raven, take this piece of flesh and blood to be tested for a match for an infection source, as soon as possible!"

"Understood, sir!"

While the four were being checked, Raven and Owl were already waiting outside the isolation door.

From an observer's perspective, Cheng Ye's behavior was quite incomprehensible to them. There was absolutely no need for him to go to such lengths for a few ordinary people.
But from an ordinary person's perspective, their feelings were complicated, and they were at a loss for words. They could only quicken their pace and take it to the laboratory building in checkpoint E for matching.

Time passed by minute by second.

More than ten minutes later, the raven returned and handed a note through the isolation door.

"has a problem?"

Cheng Ye frowned slightly, took it and saw that it said "normal".

Then he realized that the observer was really smart. If he had shouted it out and let the three of them hear it, it would have undoubtedly stolen the spotlight from him, the inspector. Letting Cheng Ye announce it himself was the way to do things in a way that showed he understood the rules of the workplace.

"Alright, you three, stop squatting there peeking and come over here dressed."

Back at the table, Cheng Ye said softly.

The next second, it was as if the three of them had springs in their feet, and they sprang to Ximo's side like lightning.

"Thank you, sir, thank you, sir!"

The four people embracing and weeping made Cheng Ye's throat tighten, and he didn't know what to say for a moment.

How absurd this world is.

He was merely doing his duty as a prosecutor, fully implementing the standard inspection procedures in the prosecutor's manual, yet he was treated like a god and received tears of gratitude.

It's not that I'm too good, but that this checkpoint is rotten to the core.

Cheng Ye pondered to himself, then suddenly changed his mind.

If this is the prevailing attitude in Happiness City, what if he were to encounter a similar situation one day and have to depend on others to survive?
"The sense of crisis is really at its peak. I'm afraid everyone in this buffer zone is climbing up in order to avoid this day from coming."

When the four people's crying gradually subsided, Cheng Ye pulled himself out of his thoughts.

"What did you guys just say you were going to give me?"

"Oh, oh, it's meteorite iron, the meteorite iron we collected from the bluestone gathering place!"

Cole slapped his forehead, hurriedly ran to the trunk, and pulled out a fist-sized black ore.

"Sir, look, this thing is very hard. We don't know what it's made of. Are you keeping it to play with?"

"siderite?"

Cheng Ye took the ore and squeezed it; his fingertips instantly felt a cold, hard touch.

Judging from its appearance alone, it is nothing special and is not as good as the fire-treasured iron we saw earlier.

"I'll let Master Liu take a look when I pick up the weapon the day after tomorrow afternoon."

Cheng Ye nodded in satisfaction.

Without the aid of movement abilities, he would have no way to utilize this raw ore.

But once you take action, find a forging skill, and manage to acquire forging equipment, you can forge all kinds of weapons at will.

"I'll keep this because I need it a little, but you can take these Happiness Coins."

As Cheng Ye spoke, he reached out and pushed the six coins on the table back onto the table.

Happiness Coins aren't very useful in the buffer zone. He can only buy what he wants with contribution points. Besides, he doesn't know how long it will take to use up the Happiness Coins left by Cheng Long.

"grown ups."

"Alright, I'll keep one so you can all rest assured."

Seeing the four people staring at him expectantly, Cheng Ye sighed helplessly: "If you have any more of this kind of ore in the future, you can bring it to me. My defense communication identification number is 96061."

"Alright, sir! You can rest assured, we'll definitely send you the ore first from now on!"

Cole's eyes suddenly lit up.

The chance to get close to a prosecutor is incredibly rare, let alone an Eastern prosecutor, even if the person sitting behind the desk is a dog, cough cough.
That's just how power is.

But then again, Cheng Ye is indeed different from other prosecutors.

The four exchanged glances, their eyes reflecting surprise. The reward from the lithium deposit would provide them with a considerable amount of start-up capital, and having a reliable inspector would save them a lot of trouble.

After nearly five years of hard work and struggle in Happiness City, if this venture succeeds, it will truly be like catching the right wave and taking off!
"Take him to get treatment right away. Be quick, there's still a chance to save his leg."

"Thank you, sir."

The four nodded in agreement. Cole darted to the driver's seat and started the car, while Hull helped the two of them back into the back seat.

Cheng Ye pressed the button, and the isolation door at the exit slowly slid to both sides.

However, just as Cole was excitedly waving and preparing to step on the gas and leave...

Boom.

The isolation door, which had just been opened, suddenly slammed shut with a deafening metallic clang.

At the same time, a piercing alarm sounded throughout the checkpoint, with two long and two short beeps echoing incessantly in the empty checkpoint.

"what happened?"

The four looked up in surprise, only to see Cheng Ye and the prosecutor from Block B next door also standing up abruptly in shock.

It was as if a bomb had been dropped on the checkpoint. Amidst the blaring alarms, hundreds of armed guards instantly poured out from the four quarantine zones, as if facing a formidable enemy!

"Two long and two short signals indicate the highest level of alert at the checkpoint. It could mean either an outbreak of infection or..."

Cheng Ye suddenly turned around, and the four brothers followed his gaze.

Two flags were seen hanging on the machine gun tower of the checkpoint, seemingly out of nowhere.

One side was crimson red like blood, the other side was deathly white like paper.

This means.

"Red represents danger, white represents sacrifice; let the red and white flags fly side by side."

Cheng Ye's voice suddenly turned somber, "A station chief on duty has been killed!?"

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