"One group, normal."

"Two groups, normal."

"Three groups, normal."

Three groups of heavily armed soldiers quickly completed the inventory of the student dormitory and cafeteria area, except for the blood stains left by the previous lesions and the clearance, no abnormalities were found, and no zombies were found by the detection radar and manual search.

The students had returned to the school building, and after the mutated girl had been killed, her body had been moved to the research center located in the school. A United Nations-commissioned research team took over the former medical research team in Qilin City, and Li was allowed to meet with representatives of the United Nations research team after repeated requests in the name of the students' guardians to calm the students' panic.

He was accompanied by Police Lieutenant Hailinga, who also acted as an interpreter.

However, Li is fluent in English.

The person in charge of communicating with Li Xiaocheng was a middle-aged white man, slightly chubby, wearing a surgical gown and a pair of rimless glasses, who seemed to have experienced a long time of work, he looked tired, and the stubble on his face was very vigorous because he had no time to take care of it. The badge shows that his surname is Marcuse.

"Mr. Li, let me answer your doubts first. Your child is infected and mutated without outside exposure. This is not the first time we have seen such an example. In principle, the virus is transmitted in two ways, one is airborne, which is why many people are unknowingly infected, and the other is blood-to-blood, which is most direct through contact, especially after a scratch or bite. ”

"Didn't you say that airborne contacts are immune if they are not infected within 24 hours?"

"That's right, but 24 hours is not absolute."

"What is the longest time? I wonder, what is the maximum amount of time to conclude that a person will not be infected without contact? Now the children are panicking, they are very worried that their classmates will suddenly mutate in the next second. ”

"All I can say is that the longer it takes, the lower the likelihood of infection. You have to check every once in a while, I heard that this child of yours didn't see any mutations at the time, how did you spot the anomaly? ”

"Mental outlook, and, movements, and maybe an intuition."

"Your senses are acute, but not everyone can have such acuity, the most important feature is the changes in the mouth, the eye-corneum, but later. If the mouth is examined, if the saliva starts to thicken and the tongue becomes darker, these are all precursors to mutation. ”

"Okay, we can organize regular inspections. Mr. Marcuse, your group seems to be very experienced, does that mean that this virus has been spreading for some time? ”

"Frankly, it's not been more than a week, we've been to a lot of countries, a lot of places in a week, but the situation on this island is the worst. Almost overnight, there was a full-blown outbreak of infections on the island. ”

"So why not give the world an early warning? If people were alert, it wouldn't be so serious! ”

"I'm sorry, it's not a question I can answer to you. But one thing I must tell you is that this virus is a virus that is beyond medical theory, and the initial cases of a week ago did not even spread from person to person, and its mutation rate is so fast that even the most advanced medical computers in all human beings cannot keep up with and analyze it, and every step of our research is actually lagging behind. ”

"In other words......" Coming out of Marcuse's makeshift laboratory, Li Shancheng looked at Hailinga who was following him, as if asking a question, and as if talking to himself: "Mankind can only ask for more blessings now?" ”

Hailinga looked at the other party and replied, "Personally, I don't think it's better to be so desperate. At least, we're alive now. ”

"Mr. Marcuse said just now that it is not right for children to call infected people zombies, they are not living dead, medically speaking, they are still alive, but mutated."

"When I say living, it's a normal state."

"Yes, they're still alive, but it's the same as dead. Mr. Marcuse said they could not be cured. ”

"Do you believe what he says?"

"I don't have the expertise in this area, I can't judge."

"But you're not your average middle school teacher, are you?"

"No, I'm just a regular middle school teacher."

"The information shows that you have been a soldier, and you have been to the battlefield, and you used to be an elite special forces officer."

"That doesn't stop me from being a regular middle school teacher now, right?"

"Yes, but I'll make a request to the commander that you can have a weapon that you have the ability to control."

"If I could, I would like to provide weapons to my students, who are trained and disciplined."

"I'll relay your request to the commander, but, at this point, it's going to be very bad."

"Isn't the situation bad enough? Lieutenant, the best case scenario now is to lock down the entire island and prevent the virus from leaking onto land, including you, and I think we'll be on our own for the time being. ”

"The rescue didn't stop, it worked, isn't it safe here now? …… Except, in that particular case just now, at least our external defenses are reliable. And now there are more than 10 safe enough shelters on the entire island...... Including us here. ”

"There are more than a million people on this island, and if you count the number of people who play, it could be close to two million. But our shelter, not counting the military police and researchers who rescued us, there are only a few dozen survivors, and if the other shelters are in the same situation......"

"The largest vault has housed tens of thousands of survivors...... We are here because we are a research center, so we don't have more survivors. But there has been an order to open the nearest evacuees if they can reach it. ”

"Lieutenant, have you ever thought about a question?"

“……？”

Mr. Marcuse said that the virus has been present for a week, in other words, the island is not the source. There is also a possibility that infected people will be found in the urban area on the other side of the river. It may not be too difficult to lock down this island of one or two million people, but what about a city with a population of tens of millions? What about more places? ”

"Commander......" Hailinga was silent for a long time, pulled down the miniature microphone on his helmet, and said: "I request that the teachers and students of this school be provided with weapons and equipment to be integrated into our combat sequence. ”

"Roger, agreed."

“……”

"Isn't that a bit of a surprise?" Li Shancheng sighed, looked at Hai Lingjia's complicated expression, and said, "The situation will be even worse. ”

"Teacher Li, I have been instructed to appoint you as the commander of the 1st Militia Squad of the 1st Shelter Alert Force on Paradise Island, restore your rank of second lieutenant before retiring, and accept my direct command."

"Okay, I'll obey orders."

……

"I said before that there was no extra equipment, but I didn't expect the plot to be reversed so quickly......" Gao Yang held his hands, stood next to Ye Xiang, and looked at the middle school students who had just changed into military combat uniforms on the playground in the afterglow of the setting sun, with a very complicated expression.

And Ye Xiang had a bandage hanging on his arm, and said disappreciably: "A group of middle school students, what use can it be?" ”

"Then it depends on who is leading the group." Gao Yang looked at the sky and looked at his watch, and his mood began to be irritable again. I am afraid that this disaster will not pass easily.

Gao Yang exhaled irritably, heard Li Liancheng's voice, turned his head again, and saw that Li Liancheng had divided the 37 middle school students into 5 groups, each group of 7 people, and the extra two boys stayed by his side.

"Li He, Yang Gang, Zhao Hangcheng, Sang Quinoa, Zheng Qinglan, the five of you are the team leader, Ma Jie, Tian Hanlin, you two are my adjutants. From now on, you are no longer students, you are members of the 1st squad of the militia, fighters. Watch your crew, remember every face, check everyone regularly, train together, fight together, live together. ”

"Teacher, this is ...... Is there no rescue? ”

"Yes, but we have to be able to save ourselves first."

"Teacher, can I not be a militiaman?"

"Yes, now you all have a chance to choose, you can stand on the side of the old principal, and be protected as civilians along with Teacher Chai and Teacher Liao, oh, there are also big stars and his injured assistants over there."

“emmmmm…… Teacher, I'd better stay with you, I feel safer. ”

"Teacher...... Shall we call you a teacher, or a captain? ”

"I'll teach you the ...... of the rules of battle"

"Teacher...... If I become...... They're ...... like that. Are you going to kill me? ”.

"You won't change, but if I do, I want you to shoot me in the head. According to the actual experience of combatants, the head is the most problematic. Note that you call the mutants zombies, which is inaccurate, although they have mutated, but they are not dead, the situation is much more complicated, you must master the skills of survival in the shortest possible time, but also master the skills of group combat, and your team members to form absolute trust and tacit understanding, this is not our usual training, and finally emphasize again, we have no chance to make mistakes, there will be no chance. ”

On the other side of the playground, Lieutenant Hailinga and Major Jian Chong, the commander of the 1st Vault, were also holding their hands and looking at the group of people on the playground, and they were also talking about this group of people in a low voice like Gao Yang and Ye Xiang.

"Commander, is it really to the point where you have to arm such a group of children?"

"The superiors have made it clear that they will not add more manpower to us, only equipment, and instead of leaving excess equipment idle, it is better to help them grow."

"But they're all just kids......"

"Lieutenant, at this point, you are inferior to your subordinates...... That is, Second Lieutenant Li Xiaocheng saw it thoroughly. If the time comes for them to face the battle, death doesn't slow down because they're still children, and becoming warriors is their best way out. If things get better, then the experience will have a huge positive effect on them as well! Ask your subordinates for advice! He's a real veteran! Perhaps, he can save your life when it counts! ”

After Major Jian Chong said this, he turned around and left, and the command center of the whole island was calling him to participate in a video conference, and every time he had a meeting, he felt that the situation was becoming less and less optimistic.