Chapter 406: Fall Day
“Dad…… Dad ...... "In the darkness, a little girl's voice rang out.
The camera of the screen was very close to Toyce's face at this time, and he slowly opened his eyes, and the image in front of him was a little blurry.
"Handsome guy, wake up, it's time for you to go to work."
The camera zooms out to see a little blonde girl, about seven or eight years old, shaking Toyce's shoulders.
The picture gradually became clearer.
Tois straightened up with some difficulty: "Hmm...... What time is it, baby? ”
"It's almost half past eleven."
Tois sat down on the couch and reached out to rub his forehead and temples, "I remember I set an alarm. ”
The camera swept over the living room, in the dim light of the room, the TV played the news channel, the sound was so small that it was a little inaudible, and the whole room seemed a little warm and a little narrow, but if it was just a father and daughter living together, it should still be enough.
A German pastor was napping by the fire, and when he saw that his master was awake, he also came over.
At this time, the camera zoomed in again, and Julio could finally see what the protagonist looked like, but it seemed to be ...... Younger than the image that was exposed before? No, much younger.
Elizabeth shrugged her shoulders and looked like a little adult, and then touched the German Shepherd's head: "It seems that your alarm clock is the same as your previous one, and it is going on strike." ”
"I don't go on strike to ask for a raise, where is the money to buy you health insurance."
"I'm healthy." Elizabeth raised her right arm to show off her biceps toned pose.
"yes, it looks like someone just had a cold last week, what's going on now?"
"It's much better, I'm alive." But no one lived, and immediately coughed twice.
"So you should go to bed at this time, remember to take your medicine."
"Got it, got it, I'll go to sleep, I'll make dinner for you and put it on the table."
"I'll bring food on the road."
"Which line is it today?"
"Go to Las Vegas."
"I think you should change jobs, the night bus driver will make you age quickly."
"I thought, what better job would I be, lawyer? Dentist? Or senator, hmm...... I have to think about it and make a careful choice. ”
"Can it be the president?"
"That's better, that's why Na decided, I'll resign tomorrow and become president."
"Then I'm the first daughter?"
"I only have a daughter like you."
"Do you remember what day it was?"
"Do you have any more performances at school, or is it Parent Day?"
"It's your birthday, old handsome, and I'll say you're going to age fast, and your memory is starting to fade, isn't it, Dante?" She looked at the dog, and Dante snorted as if in agreement.
“……”
"Look at the coffee table."
"What is this?"
"Your watch has been down for a long time, so ......"
Toyce unpacked, and it was a brand new watch.
Warm guitar solo background music sounds.
"Oh...... Forehead...... I love it, but baby, where do you get the money? ”
"Drugs, I'm selling drugs, don't you know." Elizabeth collapsed on the couch, calm, and obviously joking.
"The first daughter can't sell drugs...... But can you help pay off the loan? ”
"You want to be beautiful, that's your responsibility."
Soon Elizabeth fell asleep on the couch, and Toyce picked up her princess and laid her on her bed.
With just a few lines of dialogue and a cutscene, the game has made the characters very vivid and briefly introduced the background of their lives. The night bus driver, who has no skills, bears the burden of the family, a typical little person at the bottom of the society, has no regular and rich life, but also survives strongly. The young, but mature daughter, like a little adult, is cheerful, lively, and positive.
There is also the relationship between father and daughter, very casual jokes, but they love each other, these things are reflected in the details of those conversations, the humble but peaceful life of the two people.
But the sound of a car crashing shatters the silence of midnight and, in fact, the tranquility of life.
Just as Tois got dressed and was about to head to the bus stop to start work.
At this time, Julio can already control the protagonist's free movement.
He walked out of the window and saw that the two cars that had just collided had already burned, and just ten meters away from their house, the street was lit by firelight, and then several police cars flashed their police lights and whistled their sirens.
The previous warm background music has long since come to an abrupt end.
Julio also sensed that something was wrong.
Looking out of the window, there were more panicked crowds, not one or two, but many, fleeing in the same direction, as if something terrible had happened.
Horror was written all over their faces.
Tois didn't notice the TV still playing, and the news channel host seemed to be saying that the flu had begun to break out, and asked the general public to try to stay at home and not go out. The voice was small, and Julio didn't hear it clearly.
"Bang bang bang!"
"Bang bang bang!"
A violent knock on the door rang out again.
Judging by the frequency of the knocks, there should be only one person.
"Who?" Toyce shouted loudly, but received no response.
Dante, the shepherd, had run to the door, barking his teeth and letting out an aggressive growl, apparently sensing the smell of danger.
Taken aback, Julio retrieved a pistol from his bedroom drawer, loaded it with bullets, and prepared to open the door to see what was going on.
The knocking continued.
“Dad?” Elizabeth was also awakened by the noise, and her voice came from the bedroom.
Toyce went to her bedroom first, and saw that she had already straightened up and sat on the bed.
"It's okay, you're here, I'll take a look."
Tois walked to the door and asked for the other party's identity again, but there was still no response, only more and more rapid knocking on the door, as if as long as he didn't open the door, the other party would definitely knock the door to pieces.
"Dante, stand back." Tois opened the wooden door and saw an adult male covered in blood, the light here was not enough to see the expression on his face, he just felt something strange, the other party's movements were very unnatural, not what a normal man should be, a little rickety, it looked like it was difficult to walk.
"What can you ......?" Tois had finished speaking, when the other party had already broken into his house.
"Sir, this is private territory." Toyce raised his gun, "I warn you to leave immediately, or I'm going to shoot!" ”
The other party did not pause at all because of his words.
"Wow!" Dent was ready to attack and was ready to rush forward to fight.
Elizabeth also came out of her bedroom at this time, and saw her father facing another strange man in the living room.
"Baby, hide behind me! Come here! ”
Tois beckoned his daughter to come over and get where he could take refuge, and stopped her again.
The man didn't seem to be hearing, and then he rushed towards Tois and Elizabeth.
"Bang!" Toyce finally pulled the trigger.
Elizabeth was also screaming.
But the shot only hit the opponent's leg, and the man's movements were not affected by anything, only a slight pause.
"Don't go any further!" Toyce shouted with a roar.
The other man lunged at them again.
"Bang bang bang!" Toyce pulled the trigger continuously, and a shot hit the man in the head, and he finally fell to the ground.
"Daddy, who is that!" Elizabeth was terrified.
"No, I don't know, I don't know him."
Tois had never killed anyone, and a rush of blood rushed to the top of his head, and his brain was also blank at the moment, and he could hear the sound of his heart beating violently.
He led Elizabeth out of the house, and Dante followed, and they saw that the whole city was drowning in flames, and everywhere there were fleeing people, and the sound of crying and screaming came from all corners, and there were explosions, and it was like the end of the world.
Toyce took Elizabeth in his arms, and Dante with him, as they walked through the streets, not knowing where to go. They also learned what was going on, a certain flu began to spread in the town, and within 24 hours the infected people would start to lose their minds and engage in mindless aggressive behavior, and any normal person who was bitten or scratched by them would soon become their own kind.
The outbreak began at the hospital, which is now completely paralyzed and the police station has also stopped working.
Julio in front of the screen also looks at the fleeing crowd, the panic and helplessness and the desire to survive, Pasca seems to have used a lot of shots to render such a scene. In such extreme circumstances, human beings have torn off the cloak of civilization and have begun to become less decent. In any case, to escape from the city is everyone's first reaction.
They trampled on each other in search of a way to survive, the road was completely paralyzed, full of crashed cars that could no longer move, and a large truck that overturned blocked the main road in the town, at first they helped each other climb onto the car and escape. But after someone opened this head, the strong and strong began to step on the shoulders of the weak and the slow-moving and rolled over, and slowly it became a pile, and people stepped on people, and more and more people were submerged below, making faint sounds, and then there was no sound......
Although they also wore suits and shirts.
Several young men beat a middle-aged man with glasses, curled up on the ground and dying, as the young men snatched his car and his crying and screaming wife and daughter next to him.
In convenience stores, water and food were also targeted, and violence began to erupt in all corners of the town.
Toyce could only hold the revolver in his hand, he didn't have many bullets.
They dodged the crowd and sneaked to the bus stop, thankfully Toyce still had the keys to the bus, but it was already full of infected, Dante barked and ran to the other end, attracting the intested's attention, and Toyce and Elizabeth boarded and started the car.
The infected move much faster than the average zombie in the movie.
Tois drives the bus through hordes of infected people and finds a way to survive.
Someone on the side of the road was telling him to stop, and Tois stopped, but pulled out his pistol as the other man got into the car. Toyce, who had been on the alert, immediately stepped on the accelerator, and the other party fired six shots at the car in the back.
Julio really felt what the word fall was like, it was terrible, he even felt a little sad, not really scared, but sad, and he was all about the game, just a little instinctively wondering if people would really be like the game if such a moment really came.
He didn't know why Pasca was trying to make the world so dark and hopeless.
Fifteen minutes into the game, in addition to the initial warmth, an atmosphere of despair permeated, and the two emotions formed a strong contrast.
And in such a situation, he will be especially concerned about the fate of the protagonist, especially the positive, optimistic but so fragile little adult, Elizabeth.
On this day, Virginia, a small city in northwestern Nevada that borders California, fell.
Soon the army was dispatched to seal off the city, "protect" the people, and bring them together.
By this time it was already dawn, and in the far west of the town, they had set up a makeshift quarantine station. People lined up and walked slowly, exhausted, and many of them still had tears on their faces, what they had been through that night.
At the front of the line, there are people wearing isolation gowns who don't know whether they are the government or the military, and they will be briefly checked, gambled, to see if there is a suspected source of infection, and the normal people and infected people will be isolated.
Toyce and Elizabeth were among them.
It was surrounded by armed soldiers with loaded guns.
He saw a family in front of him, a husband and wife and a boy, and the officials found red spots on the boy, and then two armed soldiers immediately took the child away, allowing the child to cry, and the husband and wife knelt down and pleaded for mercy without doing anything. They said it wasn't some kind of flu, just herpes in children, but the officials explained that they themselves would tell if it was herpes or flu and would cure him.
The husband yelled that he was the doctor at the hospital and that there was no cure, and then broke through the armed soldiers to get his child back.
Again, with the sound of gunshots, the husband collapsed in a pool of blood.
There was a bit of commotion in the crowd, but that's about it, the people here have seen too much of this since last night.
The officers in protective suits picked up the bullhorn and shouted that they hoped everyone would be disciplined, and that they were there to protect the safety of more people.
Tois said to Elizabeth, "Don't cough later." ”
But after a night of fleeing, Elizabeth's cold had worsened, and she squinted her eyes, blushing as if it were a symptom of a fever, and nodded.
As the checkpoint drew closer, Julio felt his heart lift again.
Upon arrival, the officers separated Toyce and Elizabeth and passed through the male and female checkpoints, respectively.
Tois took off his shirt, the officer examined his body, there were no external injuries, no specific symptoms of erythema, a flashlight was shining in his eyes, and his pupils were also normal, and there were no signs of starting to turn white.
"You can go over." Said the staff.
Tois walked past the tent, but had not yet seen Elizabeth come out, not for long, but he was caught in the waiting of the intersection.
"Ahem......"
He heard such a voice coming from the tent at the women's checkpoint, and his face turned pale instantly.