Chapter 39: Evolved Zombies (1)
By noon, the lunch was a little underprepared because I didn't expect eight more people to come in this time.
However, obviously, after three days of baptism in the last days, everyone did not demand a shortage of food, and to be honest, it is already a very happy thing for them to have a full meal now.
The eight teachers and students of Shanmu Town Middle School were hiding in the mall before, and they were definitely not hungry, but after eating the "omnivorous" for the past three days, when they ate the fragrant rice again, even if the food was not good enough, they also had the same expression as if they had eaten the delicious food in the world.
took a big bite of rice, and in the end there was not even a grain of rice left in the bowl.
Su Ziyan watched from the sidelines, and saw that the others also cherished food very much, and couldn't help but sigh in her heart, the influence of the end times was so vivid in some aspects! At the very least, the waste of food can be completely eliminated.
After the meal, Zhang Wenming asked Su Ziling to take a few people to count the materials harvested this time, and he, together with Su Ziyan, Liu Haihao, Jiang Yan, and Jiang Yan's parents, came to a room upstairs to prepare for an internal meeting.
In the current situation, Su Ziyan and others have become the core of this team of more than 30 people, which is the group consciousness that is unconsciously generated in the formation process of the team. In addition, they all have guns, so they have a superior right to speak.
Zhang Wenming knows that decision-making is a matter that can be discussed by a few people in a small area, and if too many people participate, it will be impossible to form a unified opinion because of everyone's own concerns, and then relative concentration of decision-making power is necessary.
And in the core team, if you want to subdivide it further, Su Ziling must have followed her sister Su Ziyan, Jiang Yan and his parents are obviously a group, and Jiang Yan was the first to follow Su Ziyan, and he also tended to Su Ziyan in his choice.
In addition, although Zhang Wenming has become the leader of the entire team with his leadership ability and his own ability, because he was once a soldier under Su Ziyan's father, he has a different kind of care for Su Ziyan and her sister Su Ziling, as well as Wang Leer and Liu Haihao, these two are closer to Zhang Wenming, but because they are both women, Wang Leer will take Su Ziyan into account when considering problems.
So even if Su Ziling and Wang Leer didn't participate in any discussion, the rest of the people were surprised to find that Su Ziyan, who seemed to be inconspicuous, played a pivotal role in the entire team.
Coming upstairs, Zhang Wenming first introduced the situation outside to Su Ziyan in the past few days, and after telling, Su Ziyan learned that after three days of fermentation, the overall trend of the zombie apocalypse has become more and more clear, but the information collected from everywhere has also made everyone's mood more and more uncomfortable.
"Now that the end of the world is coming, we have been to many places in the past three days, and we feel very bad!" Zhang Wenming's voice was heavy, and he felt as if he was pressing a boulder in his heart.
Jiang Yan nodded and said: "Yes, this zombie apocalypse is too serious, compared to three days ago, there are zombies everywhere outside, and many have run out of the room." This time we went out to look for supplies, and we ran into a lot of trouble! I'm afraid it will be even more difficult in the future. ”
"Are there a lot more zombies out there?" Su Ziyan's face changed and asked.
"Yes, a lot more, at least three or four times as much as before!" Jiang Yan's face exaggerated.
"Three or four times?"
Su Ziyan was taken aback after hearing this, although she hadn't seen the zombies outside with her own eyes, but if it was really three or four times as Jiang Yan said, then the situation was already very bad.
A small number of zombies naturally can't stop the explosion-proof car, but if the number is three or four times more, or even more, even if the power performance of the explosion-proof car is good, it will still run into trouble.
Frankly, this is no longer the right time to travel long distances, because the dangers along the way are too great and there are many unpredictable situations.
Thinking of the zombies she saw before, she asked, "Are the zombies outside now much more flexible than the ones we encountered before?" ”
"Yes!" Zhang Wenming frowned, "This is exactly what I'm going to say next!" ”
Su Ziyan pricked up her ears and looked like she was listening carefully.
Zhang Wenming sighed and said, "Maybe we made a mistake, that is, one-sidedly using the zombies in film and television works to measure the zombies in reality!" The consequence of this is that we may be underestimating the rate at which zombies grow! ”
"Zombies are not immutable inferior creatures, it is also constantly evolving, if the zombies we met that night are compared to babies who have just been born and learned to crawl, then by the time of the day, the zombies' ability to act is already like a three- or four-year-old child!"
"And now three days have passed, and the zombie's ability to move is no slower than an adult's walking!"
After Su Ziyan listened, her beautiful eyes flashed a few times, and her heart was covered with a layer of haze, she remembered the action ability of those zombies that Zhang Wenming saw when she came back before, and it was indeed as Zhang Wenming said, the speed was very fast.
Although she woke up from a coma this time, she felt that her reflexes had also been greatly improved, even greater than the progress of those zombies, but the progress of the "enemy" gave people a more shocking feeling.
"If zombies can keep evolving at this rate, it's terrifying!" She murmured, her heart trembling.
"yes!"
This is what everyone is worried about!
Originally, zombies were already so terrifying, and if they could continue to evolve, the only speed advantage of humans would be equaled by them...... At that time, the enemy will be strong and we will be weak, and it will be a question of whether the human race can survive or not.
"But we don't have to be so pessimistic, maybe zombies are not what we imagined, they can continue to evolve! A species should have its own limits, maybe the limit of zombies is the current state? Zhang Wenming smiled and cheered everyone up.
"That's right!" Jiang Yan slapped his palm vigorously at this time, and said: "I don't know if you have noticed, the zombies you have seen in the past few days are obviously grayer than before, although the zombies in the past are also miserable and white, but they are still somewhat fleshy, but the zombies you have seen in the past few days are basically a kind of decaying creatures." ”
Jiang Yan paused, his eyes rolled slightly, "You say, are these zombies no longer able to be called creatures?" So are they alive or dead, and will they decay and festering because they can't get enough nutrients? ”
"Waiting for them to rot on their own?"
Su Ziyan glared, and wanted to say that Jiang Yan was whimsical, but after thinking about it, it was not impossible to do so, after all, zombies need to move and consume energy, so how do they get energy?
Simply eating humans is one way, but after a certain extent, it will inevitably cause a situation where there are more monks and less porridge, and will the zombies starve to death at that time?
It's just that this kind of thinking is too negative, and there is no ambition at all.
"By the way, what are we going to do next, just stay here?" She asked.
Zhang Wenming also had some difficulties when this question was asked: "Originally, we wanted to wait for news from the government, hoping to know the situation of the resettlement site, and then lead the team to the resettlement site, but three days have passed, and the government has not heard any sound at all, and there is no sign of the army, so in this regard, we have to plan for the worst." ”
"You mean that the government may have lost its institutional capacity?"
Su Ziyan's face became solemn, if this is the case, it is really terrible.
Zhang Wenming nodded and said: "This possibility is extremely high, and even if the government does not completely lose its establishment, it will not have time to take care of various places in a short period of time!" ”
There has been no movement for three days, which is a dangerous signal, although Su Ziyan also admits that it is indeed difficult for the government to do something in this situation, and it is a bit demanding of them to do what they want, but from another point of view, it can also prove how terrifying this end times are!
If there is a lack of social forces to coordinate the overall situation at this time, the consequences will be unpredictable in the absence of the main body and bones.
If at the beginning, everyone was new to the end of the world, and still retained some moral constraints of the peaceful era, and in many ways they were able to take into account each other's feelings, and they could help each other with each other's behavior, then as the situation is increasingly collapsing, practical factors will destroy the so-called human nature, and what kind of social environment will be at that time is no longer imaginable.
Zhang Wenming glanced at everyone, and when he saw that everyone was silent, he said: "Now we don't have a clear destination to go, and rash action may lead to danger, so when I come back, I have an idea, it's better to stick here first and wait for further news!" ”
After listening to this, Su Ziyan nodded, probably able to understand Zhang Wenming's thoughts.
In order to respond to all changes, fir town belongs to the forestry town, it is surrounded by mountains, the forest is verdant, compared with other places, it has a unique advantage in the geographical environment, if it is well arranged, it is a good place to fight for a long time.
During the three days that Su Ziyan was in a coma, Zhang Wenming and the others went to many places, even the southernmost Changba Town, but in the end they brought Jiang Yan's parents here, of course, there was the reason why Su Ziyan was in a coma, but on the other hand, it also took into account the advantages of Shanmu Town.