A high-end residential complex in the District of Columbia

Only one spot was turned on in the dimly lit room, and from the direction of the dining room came the sound of rodents squirming as they chewed their food......

In the living room, in the shadows, the woman leaned alone next to the telephone stand in the hallway, her facial expression was numb from fear or shock, and her hands, which seemed to pay attention to maintenance in normal times, trembled and could barely hold the phone's earpiece - although the other side of the phone had hung up at this time, and there was a busy sound, she still maintained the posture of holding the microphone to her ear for a long time, and after about ten minutes, she stiffly put down the earpiece and pulled the shawl she was draped on.

[Mrs. Wilson? Hello. This is the command center of the Special Events Processing Department in Washington, D.C., and the event transmitter of LL4812724 is talking to you - we are currently working on the aftermath of the failure of the "Green Source Crystal Destruction Project", and based on the past half hour of observation, we have found that the "Green Source Crystal" has released a large amount of energy after the failure to destroy it, which may cause a small number of people to mutate, we call it "berserker" or "infected"......]

"It's too cold."

In the living room, the firewood in the fireplace is burning and crackling, the flames are strong, and although the floor heating has partially failed, the fireplace is enough to provide enough warmth for the home if you stay on the first floor......

[The initial appearance of this infected person is that they are not afraid of the cold, and their body is usually three times or even more than that of ordinary people......]

The beater woman suddenly felt that she was getting colder again, and she muttered "I need to add some materials" and moved towards the fireplace, passing the sofa on the way, and her eyes went straight past the couch full of blood-stained school uniforms that had just been taken off, and when she came to the fireplace, she bent down and picked up the tongs, and hesitated, she reached for the only wall lamp next to the fireplace—

click-reads;.

The dim light illuminated the living room slightly, standing in this light, the woman didn't have time to breathe a sigh of relief, at this time, there were two loud noises in the dining room that startled her, she subconsciously slumped against the wall, and at the same time he heard his son's voice in the dining room-

"Mom, didn't I tell you not to turn on the lights? It's so bright, I hate it. ”

"I'm sorry, Joan, Mommy is going to shut it down." The woman trembled and stretched out her hand to try to turn it off, but she was so nervous and frightened that she couldn't turn it off after several attempts, and then she had to use her elbow to hit the switch on the wall lamp - and after another "click", the whole living room fell into darkness again.

[But they may hate light sources.] 】

There was a satisfied sigh from the dining room, and the sound of chewing sounded again.

The woman moved cautiously, and walked slowly to the restaurant, and stood at the door of the restaurant, and saw at a glance the mess in the restaurant—the table full of peels and gnawed nuts; Spilled milk jugs, milky white liquid dripping from the table onto the otherwise clean and tidy floor; Crumbs, empty pizza boxes, hollowed-out jams, and knives and forks stained with unknown food and thrown aside......

At the end of the table, a black shadow curled up, and it was from where the strange, swift chewing sound came from at this moment...... When his eyes adjusted to the darkness and looked closely at the dark shadow, he could see that a strong boy of seventeen or eighteen years old was squatting in the chair, and at this time he was opening the simple minced meat for meat sauce and stuffing the raw minced meat into his mouth frantically—

[They may have an insatiable hunger, devouring a qiē of food that can be put in their mouth, whether it is a fruit or vegetables, or raw meat, at first they are just hungry, and eventually they will fall into an uncontrollable madness and put something that can be eaten in their mouth...... This kind of paranoia about food can make them very aggressive—]

After a long time, the boy seemed to feel the gaze projected from outside the restaurant, and he stopped chewing and looked up.

The woman standing outside the dining room was startled, and when she met her green eyes in the dark, she had to force herself to smile and ask, "What's the matter, my dear?" ”

"Mom, there's not enough food." Joan put down the empty raw meat, "Do you still have bacon at home?" I like bacon the most, maybe I can use them with bread......"

The woman looked at her son with the same smile.

That familiar face, she has watched her body grow step by step for seventeen years-

After a long time, she seemed to have made up her mind, the tense muscles on her face relaxed, and she showed a real smile: "There is no house left, but I know that the supermarket at the end of the street is still open." Dear Joan, can you wait for Mommy, I'll go out and buy you some pears in the fridge before that-"

Her words were finally swallowed in her throat because of fear, the door of the refrigerator had been opened, and the young man who had been sitting at the dining table a second ago had somehow squatted in front of the refrigerator now, reached out and took out the pear from the refrigerator, put it to his mouth, and showed Senbai's teeth "click", and bit off a large piece of pear meat......

"Mom, are you going to hate me because I accidentally offended you just now?"

"How come, dear Joan, you are my son, how could I hate you?"

The woman turned around with a smile on her face, and when she returned to the living room, she did not immediately change her clothes and go out as she had said—instead, she sat slowly on the couch, in the middle of the pile of blood-stained school uniforms—in the darkness, she curled up her body, her arms on her knees, she desperately bit the flesh on her arm and forced herself not to make even a sound, but her body trembled slightly, and tears desperately welled up from her eyes......

[The most obvious feature of this type of infected person is that their eyes will turn green after infection, if there is a patient in the family with the above conditions, in order to ensure your safety, please immediately inform the headquarters and find an excuse to leave the home. 】

[We will send staff to inject the antidote serum for your family later, and we are currently equipped with one antidote serum for each family——]

The woman stood up, took the bag that had been placed on the coffee table and went out, she went to the hanger, and took off the expensive mink coat and wrapped it around her, and as she wrapped it around her, she seemed to be unconsciously humming—

"Who killed the robin? It was I, said the sparrow, and I slew the robin, with my bow and arrows. Who saw him die? It's me, said the fly, and with my little eyes I saw him dead...... Who made a funeral dress for him? It's me, Mother said, and I'll make a mourning dress for it—"

The woman opened the door and walked out into the hallway, as if she was afraid that the wind would blow the boy of the family cold, she turned and carefully closed the door, and tightened her small purse, and she came to the courtyard that was slowly covered with snow...... She stood in the middle of the snow, reached into her bag, and pulled out a small, jet-black metal substance from it—

After about three seconds of silence.

Bang!

The sound of gunfire pierced the howling of the wind, and the snow shook off the withered pine trees.

The woman in the fine dress fell in the snow, and the bright red blood spread under her body—the coat slipped from her body, and under the coat, the intimate warm housewear was stained with a shocking red, except for the one on the shoulder, which was torn apart as if it had been attacked by a wild beast, and the dark red that had dried up blurred the original print of the housewear.

……

Center Street, Washington, D.C

It's the first day of the new year.

Walking on the empty streets, 95% of the shops on the streets have closed their doors and are no longer open for business - the streets are empty, not to mention pedestrians, and there is not even a car compared to the busy lanes of the previous days: on such a cold day, the car will immediately go out because the water tank freezes, and people who rely on modern technology to travel can only choose to stay at home honestly at this time.

On the empty walkway, under the eaves, only a young man in an overcoat walked briskly forward, because every time he had to pull his leg out of the snow and take the next step, his steps did not look very easy...... In comparison, the white-haired boy who followed him was much more relaxed: in such a cold weather, he was only wearing two thin clothes, and the corners of his lips were slightly hooked and seemed to be careless, but his red eyes stared at the person walking in front of him for a moment-

When the person in front of him accidentally shook his body because of the frozen ice on the side of the road, he could always reach out in time to grab him and prevent him from falling.

Then the hand that has just been given the rescue will be immediately and ruthlessly shaken off.

Fortunately, Enoch was very happy about this, and of course he knew that there was a reason why the guy walking in front of him was so annoyed by his help - after the first time the god almost fell and was held by him, the man would obviously mumble "thank you", but after Enochhe secretly said "You look so cute", and then he didn't even have to listen to "thank you".

The two of them took a few steps forward in an atmosphere that was lower than the low temperature, and Enoch, who was walking behind, was silent, but he could clearly hear the breathing rate, heartbeat, and body temperature of the person walking in front of him throughout the whole process, and when he realized that every step taken by the person in front of him was considered reckless, he stretched his hand out of his pocket and snapped his fingers - the next second, the red points of light converged, and a crow appeared on his shoulder.

The crow flapped its wings, and then like a bullet, smashed the iron door in front of a convenience store next to them - there was a loud "bang", and at the same time the heavy iron door was knocked out of a big hole, the cocoon god who was walking in front was also startled, he turned around, but found that the person who was still honestly following behind him had stopped, he pushed the door of the convenience store open with the help of the hole knocked out by the crow, and he just wanted to walk in, as if he remembered something, he took two steps back, and walked to the god of cocoon not far away, grabbed him by the elbow, and then dragged him into the convenience store despite his objections - "What are you doing?!" ”

"Don't be reluctant if you can't walk, let alone save Chubby, if you walk another fifty meters, you'll be frozen to death on this street - ah, there's heating, munin, good eye."

Praised by his master, the crow squatting on his shoulder flapped its wings and made a triumphant call.

The two of them stood firm in the warm convenience store, and the rising temperature around them made the cocoon's originally frozen pale face immediately stained with a nice pink - of course, this was Enochie's own thoughts, in fact, he had to deny that this "pretty pink" was somewhat mixed with anger......

"What are you? Burglary?! The god glared at the white-haired boy in front of him.

The latter lazily reached into the incubator, took out a bottle of still warm drink, and while throwing it to the cocoon, he took out a handful of cash that he didn't know where to get it, and slapped it on the cash register: "Give the money, okay?" ”

Cocoon: "......"

Enoche: "Your heartbeat is normal, your body can recover to its best after drinking the hot drink, and we can go to school in one breath." ”

Fu Shen pinched the warm drink in his hand, and it was not to put it down, nor to drink it.

Enochhe sighed: "Tangled with what? There will never be a possibility that this store will open again - if we don't come in today, people will break into tomorrow, and you didn't notice how many stores you just passed? Munin smashed the door and the alarm didn't go off, the shop was abandoned, if it weren't for the thick iron door in front of it, it would have been looted long ago-"

The cocoon god had an empty expression.

"The outside temperature is minus 43 degrees, do you know any concept? Even if you destroy the green crystal immediately now and find a way to chase the sun back, the possibility of human civilization recovering to the previous level is less than what you said to me kindly-"

Cocoon: "......"

Enochie whistled: "I love this parable, it's so vivid." ”

The god came back to his senses and glared at Enoche: "You have to be so beaten when you speak?" ”

"Well, when I stand in front of you and find myself having to lower my head slightly to see you, I can't resist the urge to play with you - this must be something wrong with the program you injected with me before, I don't think I'm in love. Father, that's too perverted—"

"You know you're a pervert, reads;." The god sighed, he turned his head and hesitantly glanced at the large bill that Enochhe had placed on the cash register, and counted the money that should be enough to repair the broken door and the can of drink, and finally he still seemed to be unable to resist the temperature of the can in the palm of his hand, opened the can, and poured the warm liquid into his mouth—

At this time, the sweet drink seems to have a miraculous effect.

The internal organs that were still freezing and aching in the last second seemed to relax in an instant, and the cocoon found a chair to sit down, and as soon as he sat down, a piece of chocolate was stuffed in his mouth - he "whined" twice and finally couldn't resist the fingers that pressed on his lips and refused to move away, and finally opened his mouth and swallowed the piece of chocolate.

"Is it delicious?" Enoch asked with a smile.

“……”

The cocoon lowered his head and did not speak, chewing vigorously on the chocolate in his mouth with his back molars unnecessarily.

"I found the joy of feeding pets, you said Zhao Heng can they let me have a dog - ah, although it may not be long before even dogs will become cherished animals...... I love Siberian Husky and hope they don't go extinct too quickly. Enoch leaned over him and read a bunch of nonsense, not forgetting that he kept breaking the piece of chocolate in his hand into small pieces and stuffing them into the mouth of the god of cocoon—

The whole time he kept his head down, listening to Enoch talking about it, until this guy suddenly spoke and asked a question-

"Dr. Chu, I actually have one more question for you."

“？”

The god looked up at Enoch with some strange wonder.

"Before you came out, why did you make a special phone call to tell Zhao Heng and ask him to contact the families of those students, emphasizing that each family is only equipped with one antidote serum?"

"......" The young man who was asked showed an empty expression for a moment, and after a long time, he said lightly, "Is it difficult to understand?" If you just say that there is an antidote, those people will think, 'I can detoxify it anyway, then it's not a big deal to stay with my children now, it's a big deal to inject the antidote together,' and then they still don't want to stay with the infected person, and then the consequences will be quite troublesome - our goal is to get them to leave the infected person immediately. ”

"Ahh Enoch showed a sudden expression, "I see, I didn't expect it. ”

Although Enochet's tone of voice was praised, the god of cocoon did not show the slightest joy of being praised—as if he had taken it for granted.

There was a moment of silence in the convenience store.

Long.

When the crow standing next to the popcorn machine pecking at the popcorn flapped its wings and flew to the owner's shoulder to stand firm, Enochhe threw the chocolate wrapper in his hand into a ball and threw it on the shelf: "Dr. Chu, although I am not human, I think it is better to remind you - using too calm ways to weigh human feelings and the so-called causes and consequences may cause Yan Zòng big trouble." ”

The god looked up and glanced at Enoch inexplicably.

The latter smiled: "It's nothing, aren't you going to find that fat man, let's go." ”