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After a discussion, the rescue team did not directly enter the shelter in Lin City to carry out the rescue operation.

For one, the internal situation of Lin City’s shelter is unclear, and rushing in may pose some safety risks. Second, there are too many patients in need of help in the shelter, and without proper classification, directly investing the rescue force might not exert its maximum effectiveness.

Take a simple example: if the rescue team enters a shelter to treat patients, who will be treated first?

Some might think that severely ill patients should receive treatment first. However, the fact is quite the opposite—in this situation, those who get treated first will be light patients who still have the strength to come before the rescue team.

Because severely ill patients are too weak to compete with light patients for treatment opportunities.

As for having the rescue team search for severely ill patients inside the shelter and give them treatment...this notion is beautiful, but only feasible if the number of patients in the shelter does not exceed a certain limit. After all, everyone understands priorities; letting those seriously ill be treated first could allow more people to survive.

But when the number of patients breaks a certain limit, especially as people start to die in the shelters, most are already ill, everyone thinks first about keeping themselves alive rather than considering holding on a bit longer to give precedence to those more in need.

Without survival pressure, people might be willing to help others. With some survival pressure, as long as it’s not threatening their own life, some people are still willing to help those more needy.

But in the face of life and death, most people first think about how they should survive, and might even seize others’ survival chances rather than help them.

Therefore, for the rescue team, if they wish to conduct effective rescues, going deep into the shelters to treat patients may not yield good results.

Of course, this doesn’t mean the rescue team does nothing.

Though the two supply vehicles brought most drugs and medical supplies, they also had a set of medical tents, which could be deployed in suitable places as a temporary hospital.

In fact, after discussion, the rescue team did just that.

They arranged seven vehicles in a circle, then set up the medical tents brought within the circle to form a temporary medical station.

The entire medical station looked a little like the shape of the letter "m." Two tents joined together formed a horizontal row, while the other six connected to form three vertical columns.

The two horizontal tents served as consultation rooms, and the six vertical ones were planned as wards, with closed passageways connecting all tents. An entrance was specially made with a windproof compartment to protect the heat inside the tents from dispersing.

The tents themselves are specially designed for cold resistance, and with heaters installed internally, the temperature was reasonably acceptable.

As for the tent’s power supply, initially, the rescue team planned to use a generator. However, Chen Xin connected the tent’s power lines to his vehicle, using the onboard Isotope Thermoelectric Battery for power, which was much more convenient than using a generator.

After installing the brought-in medical equipment within the tents, the rescue team’s temporary medical station officially started operating.

According to the pre-discussed plan, the five drivers from the rescue team and two SWAT officers, with assistance from staff sent by Lin City Hall, would enter the nearby shelters to transport out severe patients for treatment.

Meanwhile, the medical station would also be open to ordinary patients for necessary treatment to help them recover their health.

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However, unlike severe patients who would be admitted into wards, light patients wouldn’t stay in the medical station after receiving treatment.

Prior to departure, the city hall had already equipped the entire rescue team with Protective Suits, while the SWAT team in charge of safety also were equipped with newly issued Exoskeletons, ensuring safety.

Once the medical station began working, survivors emerged from shelters beneath the snow and came for consultations.

Considering the medical station’s reception capacity and to avoid chaos, approximately only fifty light patients would receive treatment at each time. After the doctors handled these fifty patients and they returned to the shelters, new patients would then come for treatment.

Under the command and coordination of staff from Lin City Hall, this operation went fairly orderly.

However, most patients had various degrees of frostbite, and a few severe cases needed amputation.

This undeniably made many reluctant, as nobody wishes to lose arms or legs, even if his limbs are already blackened and necrotic, and not amputating could seriously endanger life.

Faced with such circumstances, besides explaining and persuading patients as much as possible to accept amputation surgery, the rescue team had no better options.

Though amputation wasn’t entirely out of question, the rescue team’s doctors hoped to persuade patients to voluntarily undergo surgery when feasible, even though they didn’t have much time to persuade.

Fortunately, despite reluctance, most chose to survive over the option to die without amputation.

It’s just that a few still believed that the doctor was hurting them, intending to cut their limbs, turning them from healthy to disabled.

Holding such a belief, refusing to cooperate with doctors’ treatment would only lead to their demise, but a very few even tried to attack doctors.

Though those severely frostbitten requiring amputation were typically too incapacitated for actions, and any aggression towards doctors was quickly suppressed by SWAT officers maintaining order, the situation still created a negative impact.

For Lin City’s survivors, being in an already stressed state, having endured the blizzard in cold only to drag their sick bodies towards death, finally seeing doctors there for healing only to have disruptions—it could easily frighten these survivors.

In a stress-induced condition, people, once startled and scared, could easily overreact, even incite disturbances.

Luckily, the SWAT officers maintaining order were fully armed, wearing police-colored Exoskeleton Protective Suits with warning lights, exerting enough deterrence to maintain order effectively.

As for those controlled by officers while trying to cause trouble, they will face enforced measures.

Though they aren’t abandoned in treatment, it’s clear they need to wake up and bear responsibility for their wrongdoing.