Extreme germ phobia

Chapter 390 Ascending
Having finally found a way to disassemble the hospital bed, Ouyang couldn't be happy at all.

There's nothing else to it, it's just too inefficient, time-consuming and laborious. Even if I broke my wrist, I still wouldn't be able to dismantle a few beds... How can I improve efficiency?

But he didn't have anything suitable at hand. After thinking it over, he suddenly remembered the set of keys!
Without further ado, Ouyang removed all the keys, used two keys to clamp the bolt, then tied them tightly together, pinched the key that was clamping the bolt tightly, and twisted it forcefully.

It takes a bit of effort, but you can twist it.

However, it lacks the necessary support, and the key is too short to provide enough room for maneuver. Compared to wrapping it with cloth strips, it is basically the same, with no obvious difference.

Ou Yang looked around restlessly, his gaze suddenly landing on the dismantled hollow steel pipe.

The hospital bed is made of square tubes of different sizes, with only a row of thin-walled round tubes on each of the armrests on both sides.

Ou Yang picked up a tube, put it on the bolt, and looked at it. The round tube was only one size larger than the bolt.

He stuffed the removed bolts into the round tube, picked up a square tube with thicker and stronger walls, and gently tapped it, gradually hammering one end of the round tube into a hexagon, turning it into a DIY hollow wrench.

I left a little slack, tried it on the unremoved bolt, and the hexagonal tube opening changed shape without much force, unable to withstand the torque at all.

The intensity must be increased!

Ouyang then thought of the keys, stuck several keys on it, wrapped them tightly with cloth strips, and successfully turned the tightened bolts.

With a long sigh of relief, Ou Yang revealed a joyful smile.

Sharpening your axe won't delay your work; by making a suitable tool, the disassembly speed increased significantly, and in no time, several beds were disassembled into pieces.

All the unused parts were discarded, and only the usable parts were sent to the top of the car. Then, people climbed up and assembled the various parts into a simple ladder.

It was handmade DIY, with rather rudimentary tools, resulting in a crooked and extremely abstract shape.

But Ouyang didn't expect this thing to be particularly sturdy or durable; he just wanted it to get him to the next level.

Filled with anticipation to reach the research floor, Ou Yang climbed the ladder to the next level, and once again used the deformed tray to pry open the door, but his burning enthusiasm immediately cooled down.

Outside the elevator, an infected person with a blank expression walked stiffly.

Why is it a hospital ward again?

The infected person turned around awkwardly and staggered toward the elevator.

Ou Yang suddenly exerted his strength, nimbly leaping out of the elevator shaft and kicking the infected person inside.

With a muffled thud, the infected person first smashed the ladder, then landed on the elevator car, breaking bones and spraining muscles, but did not die on the spot. He flailed his arms and kicked his legs wildly, making a commotion that echoed throughout the elevator shaft.

Ouyang didn't take the little incident to heart, but as soon as he turned around, several infected people suddenly fell from above, and the sound of them falling came from the elevator shaft, which startled him so much that he shrank his neck.

Looking back, more infected people fell one after another like raindrops, the sound of their collisions echoing incessantly.

A strong spore-like odor emanated from the elevator shaft.

The clattering sounds drew the infected out of the floor one by one. They slowly and clumsily moved towards the elevator shaft, completely posing no risk. Ouyang sighed helplessly, cleared away all the infected, searched all the wards, and was pleasantly surprised to find a nursing cart!

There were not only several unopened bags of injection fluid in the car, but also a bag of milky white medical nutrition solution!

Ouyang could hardly believe it was true.

Has it ever been a miraculous escape from a desperate situation? Has it ever been a timely act of kindness?
He drank the entire nutrient solution in one gulp, then downed two 500ml bags of glucose. His cells greedily absorbed the precious nutrients, and his weakness quickly lessened. He felt as if he had been reborn and had come back to life.

People are made of iron and food is made of steel; you'll get hungry if you skip a meal. Our ancestors were right!
Yes, not only people need replenishment, but infected people do too. The reason they are so stupid is because of excessive consumption caused by lack of food and water.

It's a small miracle that they've managed to hold on this long. If Ouyang had woken up a few days later, he wouldn't have seen infected people, but rather corpses that were gradually turning into fungi and covered in mushrooms!

After receiving nutritional replenishment, not only did his physical strength recover by more than half, but his mind also became clearer. Remembering the structure of the elevator shaft, Ou Yang had a flash of inspiration and suddenly came up with a way to leave!
The process still involves first gathering a batch of hospital beds, removing a batch of square tubes, wetting the torn curtains, tightly wrapping them around the square tubes, and making two steel pipes of exactly the same length as the elevator shaft.

Take this thing to the elevator shaft and look down. The elevator car is already covered with layers upon layers of infected people.

Looking further up, no more infected individuals were found.

Still worried, Ou Yang mustered all his strength and shouted a couple of times. After waiting patiently for a while and seeing no infected person fall, he finally felt a little relieved.

Finding it too inconvenient to operate on this floor, they had to continue tearing curtains and bed sheets, splicing them together to make a rope to slide onto the car, stepping on the infected corpses, and placing the two ends of the square tube on the ladder teeth.

There are three sets of elevator teeth in the elevator shaft. There are two sets on both sides of the elevator door and the opposite wall, each about ten centimeters wide. There is also one set on both sides, about twenty centimeters wide.

The square tubes rest on the side of the trapezoidal teeth, and at first glance, it looks like two clotheslines hanging in an elevator shaft.

So what if there's no cable? What's the big deal? I'll use this thing to slowly incline up, and I'll get there sooner or later!
It certainly won't be fast, but it's currently the only way to keep climbing upwards and possibly escape!

With a mix of trepidation and anticipation, Ouyang tried stepping on it, but before he could even get a firm footing, the connected steel pipes began to bend noticeably.

If you step on it with your whole body, the length will be reduced due to the bend, and the trapezoidal teeth won't be able to hold!
Ou Yang's mind raced, and he immediately remembered the triangular roof beams that were very common when he was a child!
He imitated the style of the roof beams, first adding a pillar in the middle, then adding auxiliary beams on both sides, and then wrapping them tightly with wet strips of cloth before re-laying them on the ladder teeth.

This made it much more stable. In the next test, Ouyang stood on it with ease, and the steel pipe only showed slight deformation.

Just to be on the safe side, it was reinforced again.

However, by alternating between the two steel pipes, one must step on one pipe while maintaining balance and then move the other upwards. Only by alternating between these two pipes can one achieve the goal of continuously climbing upwards.

Ouyang admitted that he didn't have a good sense of balance, so he simply made two more, added a support in the middle, and fixed them together in pairs. The final product was a little over three meters long and about ten centimeters wide. After being inserted into the trapezoidal teeth, it was stable and would neither tumble nor sink.

To make it easier to take it out and set it up, a cloth rope was tied to it!
The only downside is that it's a bit heavy.

But it's okay, this little problem can be easily overcome!
After a brief preparation, Ouyang solemnly placed a narrow plank made of steel pipes on the ladder teeth, placed another plank on his head, and easily climbed up with a little effort.

Pull the cloth rope outwards to pull out the narrow board below, lift it to your side and place it above your head again... Repeat this process continuously, and the journey uphill officially begins!

(End of this chapter)