Chapter 3: Hope to Despair
In the blink of an eye, it was May 2015.
After three months of rage, the horror of the RR virus finally came to an end---- not that humans had found a cure, but that all the survivors had developed antibodies to RR.
Some people rejoice in the safety of their lives, but more grief brews more and more pain.
From mid-January 2015 to late April 2015, in three months, in addition to a large number of animal deaths, the global population has plummeted by nearly 2 billion!
On May 1, 2015, Labor Day, the state declared the natural demise of the RR virus. However, there was not the slightest celebration. These three months were nightmarish three months. It is also the three months of leaving a loved one. Domestically, more than 400 million people have been taken by the RR virus.
On average, one family member dies in every three households. Of course, considering the population with weak immunity, the survival probability of the adult and the adolescent is actually higher.
The whole country is wearing linen and filial piety. But in this misery, there is also a glimmer of hope in the future, after all, this nightmare is over.
Li Ming is undoubtedly lucky, no matter what, he survived, and his mother also survived. Even his students have a high percentage of survival.
At the moment, society has not fully recovered and schools have not yet reopened. And Li Ming stayed with his mother to help, his mother opened a supermarket, and Li Ming happened to be a cameo security guard.
It is important to know that one of the side effects of RR virus infection is that it greatly improves physical fitness. The physical fitness of the survivors is almost all comparable to that of the previous professional athletes, and some of them are even stronger. Many people have an unbalanced mentality, an impulse to violence. Two days ago, Li Ming saw a person who looked like a dog molesting a little girl, and then was beaten by the surrounding crowd, trying to escape by force, but an old man directly smashed him unconscious on the bench.
And the supermarket opened by my mother was actually emptied of the goods that I had purchased before. But his mother didn't care, there was nothing to be demanding in that particular case. But now that the order has improved, no one is naturally allowed to steal.
Of course, there are also people who don't know what to do. However, in front of a super master who waved his hand with a strength of six thousand catties, these powers were at most more than a thousand catties, and the thieves and robbers with average skills were really not enough.
Just as Li Ming was helping his mother move the goods, a sharp old lady's voice came from not far away.
"Ahhh Lan Lan! ”
Then there is the sound of the body falling to the ground.
Li Ming was stunned for a moment, nodded to his mother, and walked out. Because of the lessons he taught to many bastards who wanted to grab things, Li Ming had some fame in this community. What's more, as the person with the highest force around here, Li Ming felt that he needed to take a look.
Li Ming's mother watched Li Ming walk out the door with a smile.
After a while, Li Ming found the place where the incident happened.
The scene in front of him made him dumbfounded.
A corpse lay on the ground, bleeding profusely, and the corpse was incomplete, less than half of the body, including the chest cavity and head, to be exact. Looking at her face carefully, Li Ming recognized that this was a middle-aged woman who often walked her dog, and she had been complained about many times because of her dog barking and disturbing the people, and her popularity was not very good, but after all, they were all neighbors, especially when she saw her seventy-year-old mother, who was grief-stricken, which made Li Ming feel a little worried.
With a hand on Li Ming's back, Li Ming turned around and said softly, "Uncle Qiu? What's wrong! ”
What Li Ming called 'Uncle Qiu' was a middle-aged man who looked chubby and greasy. However, Li Ming knew that Captain Wang of the urban management team was also transferred to the army back then, and he had outstanding skills. According to the grapevine, it was working on a hidden front, and after an accident, it affected the endocrine, so it became so fat! Probably because of the RR virus infection, the weight was lost, but it was a blessing in disguise. Now he serves as the director of the Municipal Stray Dog Management Center.
'Uncle Qiu' pulled Li Ming, and after the two walked to a long distance, Uncle Qiu whispered to Li Ming: "Xiao Ming, Uncle Qiu asked you something, and Uncle Qiu also knows your skills." How strong do you have now? Can you beat a Siberian tiger with bare hands? ”
Li Ming glanced at Uncle Qiu a little strangely: "Uncle Qiu, now, it's not the time to talk about this!" ”
"Humph! O young man! Uncle Qiu said angrily: "You first take a closer look at the scars on her corpse, and you can see why Uncle asked you this question!" Don't tell your uncle that you can't see it. ”
Li Ming was stunned for a moment, at first he thought that there was a certain perverted murderer with a sharp increase in physical fitness and psychological imbalance--- but after April this year, there were really many such people, and the country began to crack down on vicious crimes, and it is said that hundreds of people were collectively shot and killed two days ago.
But listening to Uncle Qiu say this, it doesn't seem to be the reason?
Li Ming carefully looked at the scars on the severed limbs, and with his eyesight, he could see them clearly from a distance of more than ten meters, and soon a chill came out of his heart.
"Is this a bite?" Li Ming's face was very unsightly.
"And it's supposed to be a canine, but I've never seen anything so big, not a Tibetan mastiff, not a northern gray! In my opinion, at least the size of the Siberian tiger. Uncle Qiu gestured with his hands and shook his head: "Aunt Cheng is such a daughter, although she is not very filial, but at least she has... What a sin! ”
"Xiao Ming, I feel that in the past few months, some animals have been hurting people more and more, and these beasts have become as strong and fast as humans. A few days ago, there was a family in the neighborhood next door whose whole family was eaten by an unknown animal, which was a miserable one! It's not fair to you, but I hope that if you think you're strong enough, I'll get you some weapons and you'll find a way to clean up the animals nearby! After all, you're the strongest individual in the area. ”
In fact, there is no shortage of masters in the community where my mother lives, because the community where my mother lives is my father's house reform back then, and Li Ming's father is a policeman on the front line of anti-narcotics after he was transferred from the army.
This community is actually the family building of the public procuratorate and law back then.
However, because the society is very chaotic now, many law enforcement agencies have gone to maintain social order. Most of the rest of the community are really old, weak, sick and disabled.
Li Ming nodded silently, does his mother also live in this community, he should indeed clean it up.
Soon, the police came to cordon off the area and invited Li Ming and others out, but Captain Wang, as a member of the system, also told the police about his inference.
On the way back, Li Ming kept thinking about it, and suddenly there was a sound about the huge rat he encountered on the way over more than half a month ago. A great fear gripped his heart.
Human beings, most of whom live a relatively comfortable life, while fitness enthusiasts, athletes, soldiers, and warriors exercise more, and their physical fitness is improved to far more than ordinary people. Even if most people are infected by the RR virus, they are only a few hundred pounds of strength, which is less than one percent of him.
And animals, too, can be infected with the RR virus, if their physical fitness is also improved, how strong will it be... An ordinary stray dog evolves into a jaguar-level beast? This is still a stray dog with a relatively comfortable life, if it is one of those beasts that really fight in the grassland and rainforest, how strong should it be.
That night, as soon as Li Ming fell asleep, an animal appeared in the northeast corner of his community.
A cat!
An orange cat!
A huge orange cat that weighs at least five hundred pounds!
And its tail is faintly divided into two forks.
Its turquoise eyes and sheer size give it strength far beyond that of a Siberian tiger.
And what's even more terrifying is that around it, there are more than a dozen stray dogs with equally huge bodies. The largest of these stray dogs is no less than a leopard, and the smallest one, which looks like a small dog like a teddy--- is also the size of a wolfdog before RR.
Like wild wolves, these stray dogs form a small team and attack the orange cats one after another.
But the orange cat was not afraid at all, and when the first stray dog pounced, it rushed forward at a speed that did not match its size, and the orange cat quickly slapped the stray dog on the head. Only a bang was heard, and the stray dog was killed instantly.
Almost at the same moment, three large stray dogs pounced on the orange cat, only to see it shrink, swing, and bump.
The two stray dogs flew out upside down, but the largest one was bitten in the spine by it and collapsed to the ground.
The orange cat found that these stray dogs could not pose a threat to him at all, and launched an attack on the stray dogs.
A few minutes later, the stray dogs left seven or eight bodies and fled. If you look closely, you will find that the corpses of these stray dogs have only one wound, either a blow to the spine or a bite to the throat. -
This 'orange cat' seems to have taken the feline hunting instinct to the extreme, perfectly inheriting the killing skills of its ancestors. And the same love of killing felines has also been inherited, these stray dogs, one of which is fatter than half of the body, but the others are motionless, it seems that they are only hunted for fun.
The orange cat quickly lost interest in hunting these stray dogs, seemingly finding it too easy. Instead, it turned its gaze to the side of the house in the neighborhood, where it remembered that there was an animal that walked upright on its feet, much more ferocious and cruel than the stray dogs that often bullied it.
After a moment's thought, the orange cat---or strange cat, as it might be called, sneaked into a house with a deft step.
Soon, there were screams, screams, and shouts and collisions in the room, but they quickly fell silent in despair.
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