It has been 22 hours since the first wave of the "virus of the century" landed on Earth.

Xiao Lan and the others were rescued by the armed police force, and with their help, Gao Qi and Feng Qi were also rescued.

When the armed police force knew the names and origins of Feng Qi and Yu Chengfei, the two were picked up by a special car and left, and at the same time, Gao Qi was invited by Feng Qi to leave together, and Xiao Lan and others went to the central district of the city like ordinary help-seekers.

Xiao Lan did not immediately request to go to the north of the city, but silently followed the leaders of the armed police to the refuge area of the masses to get the latest information when the disaster broke out. They were escorted to the hospital, where they underwent a series of simple physical examinations under the guidance of medical staff to make sure they were not at risk of carrying the virus.

Delivering to them is not so much about their safety as it is about maintaining safety.

Xiao Lan was the first person to complete the physical examination, successfully passed the basic examination, and obtained the physical qualification for free movement. Because there are many people who need to be tested and there are not enough people in the hospital, the inspection process is very simple, all manual, and no relevant medical equipment is used, so Xiao Lan's situation as an alien has not been discovered.

After the examination, she was guided by a nurse to the central hall of the hospital.

There was a lot of noise, people were moving back and forth, first-aid stretchers and wheelchairs kept passing through the field of vision, there were children's cries and grief-stricken whimpering, and a large number of armed police officers and soldiers with guns were engaged in peacekeeping. The medical staff were busy and wore many hats, so she hurriedly went to the next location after placing Xiao Lan in place.

Xiao Lan was calm in the hurried crowd, observing all this, drinking hot water in a paper cup, when he suddenly heard the sound of the news broadcast and turned his head to watch.

"According to the latest report from a reporter from the front......"

The news people on TV had solemn faces and released the latest information about the disaster to the audience.

According to the latest outbreak report released by the United States, the virus is codenamed S7T9 and is transmitted through water, air, body fluids and other channels. According to the early warning issued by the central government of China, the epidemic here is level I, which is classified as a particularly major group disease of unknown cause. Each province and city has set up an independent emergency command organization in the connecting areas, and the relevant expert groups ......"

"The main infected areas are mainly concentrated in the coastal areas, and the central government has isolated the first outbreak area, and is currently sending armed forces from the central government to the severely infected areas to carry out relevant reconnaissance and rescue. The main infected cities are detailed in the following classification ......"

It is expected that Nansu City is one of the main cities infected, and it is also one of the cities most affected by the living dead.

Xiao Lan knew that in the next 30 days or so after the catastrophe broke out, the basic order of the world gradually collapsed with these cities as the starting point. First of all, the management at the provincial level was lax, the implementation of mandatory quarantine of infected people was met with public outrage, there were crowd riots, and the ensuing extreme human factors such as unmanaged public order collapsed little by little, and the moral bottom line of mankind was challenged like never before.

Even if measures are taken, they will not be able to stop this catastrophe from sweeping away.

The marked area on the news was silently written down by Xiao Lan, and based on Laneige's original memories, he wanted to find a safe area for the Lan family, and he already had a bottom in his mind about the route.

"Now let's broadcast it. “

After the moderator basically explained the current situation, he turned to the topic of the origin of the living dead, focusing on the front line of disease research.

The picture shifted to the reporter, who was in an open wasteland of the Gobi, covered with yellow sand, and from time to time a strong wind blew through his microphone. Now he is in a desert area in the western region, dressed in a white disinfection gown, a mask and protective goggles, wrapped tightly.

After the channel's signal was turned on, he began to explain through his mask.

"Yesterday afternoon, the experts went to the front line to collect the earliest samples, and you can see the huge meteorite behind us. According to the outbreak of the virus S7T9, there is reliable evidence that S7T9 is closely related to the Perseid meteor shower a few days ago. The surface of these meteorites is covered with a layer of fine black and gray material, which will show a green-blue shimmer under the rays, which is a large number of biological aggregates, now let's listen to the opinions of the research investigators. ”

This is the first time Xiao Lan has seen the true face of a meteorite.

Laneige does not have a model of meteorites in his memory, because of the peculiarities of these meteorites.

These meteorites are the starting point of everything and the decisive factor in the end of everything. After the living dead gained their memories, they began to form an alliance, and the area where the meteorites were located was the distribution of the cities where the living dead lived, and these meteorites were of great significance to the living dead and could not be approached by humans.

The footage of the meteorite flashed and shifted to a researcher who was patiently reporting the progress of the research to the public.

"It's not accurate to call S7T9 a virus, it's actually an alien object, extremely tenacious, and has the characteristics of a similar organism. It travels through air, water, and bodily fluids to the brain from the initial point of invasion. This virus affects the early stages of cell replication and destroys them through this process. After this period, the entire body functions cease. By stopping the heartbeat, the entire infection will lead to "death". The brain, on the other hand, remains dormant and waits for the virus to mutate and transform the brain cells into an entirely new organ. This organ will cause the entire body to be transformed into a pseudo-dead state, with some of the body's functions still going on and others increasing. ”

"We call this mutant who is in a state of death a zombie. ”

Regarding this "brand-new organ", Xiao Lan still searched for useful things in Laneige's memory.

This organ is called the "crystal nucleus", which is still the basic tissue of human beings in the early stage when the living dead have no intelligence, and after having intelligence, it develops into a hard core, which is in the form of crystals, with different sizes and shapes, different colors, and transparent. It is worth mentioning that these crystal nuclei will also be present in the Ability, but in different parts. The living dead are in the brain, and the supernatural are reticulated on the outside of the heart.

"When they are controlled by new brain cells, they become bloodthirsty, cannibal, and retain certain sensory deterioration, making their sense of smell and hearing unusually sensitive. They are like animals, they have abandoned their humanity, and their food is normal people. ”

"There are many stages of infection: anterior, middle, posterior, and late, and the rate of infection progression varies depending on the route. ”

"The main symptoms in the early stage are fever, chills, alternating hot and cold, vomiting and other symptoms, accompanied by mild dementia and severe joint pain. In the middle stage, there is digital paralysis, high fever, worsening dementia, and loss of muscle coordination. In the later stage, the lower limbs were paralyzed, the whole body was paralyzed, the heart rate dropped, and he fell into a coma. In the late stage, the cardiac arrest, the brain activity is stopped, and the brain cells are converted, forming a pseudo-death state, which stimulates the bloodthirsty nature ......"

From the news, we can also roughly summarize the current situation.

At present, the research on viruses is still limited to human beings, and the changes in the surrounding organisms have not been noticed, and people still only think that this is a human-centered disaster. The Stranger did not appear on the news again, and instead of not discovering it, Xiao Lan was more inclined to believe that the news media had blocked the information out of secrecy.

When Xiao Lan drank the boiled water that had been cold in the paper cup and was about to throw it in the trash can on the side, she was hit on the shoulder by a rickety middle-aged man, and the man fell to the ground after hitting Xiao Lan, very embarrassed, holding on to the chair, struggling for a long time before getting up, and walking towards the exit of the hospital in a trance.

At this time, the communicator of the armed police suddenly sounded.

"A patient has fled to the exit!"

"Evacuate to a safe area, please evacuate!" the armed police shouted, and the people around them were isolated from the man under the protection of the armed forces.

The man was unable to move, and he had already exerted all his strength with one kick, and he was unable to run and fell to the glass door, and several armed policemen stepped forward to easily control him. Even if he was lying on the ground, he still tried to escape from the hospital with his hands and feet, struggling.

Tears flowed, faces were hideous, and they roared in grief and despair.

"Let go of me! I'm not sick!

The ending can be imagined, the middle-aged man is no match for the armed police at all, and he was subdued and returned to the isolation room of the hospital within a few minutes.

As if nothing had happened, the noise was still there, the busyness was still there, and a mood called "despair" was quietly spreading among the crowd.