2521, February.

Deep winter, extremely cold.

The snow is falling, and the white flocculent is in the air, like goose feathers fluttering.

Lights linger.

The night is cold.

On the side of the clean and damp road, heavily armed disinfection trucks sometimes drive through the cold and slippery ground with their horns, and snow chains clatter on the ground.

The white mist rose into the air with the disinfection truck, like a giant dragon turning over.

On the balcony of the residential area next to the road, a big red lantern is hanging.

It's the New Year.

In the midst of the hustle and bustle, relying on the high walls and barbed wire across the continent, as well as the efforts of thousands of night watchmen wearing isolation suits and guarding the high walls, mankind has rarely ushered in a peaceful New Year.

People hung up lanterns that they didn't have time to hang last year.

A family of three wearing gel suits, straightened their masks, straightened their masks, and stood on the balcony with their big hands holding small hands, lighting fireworks that they didn't have time to set off last year.

Syllable!

Fireworks exploded in the air.

People began to count silently, and a few more stars of their own were extinguished in their hearts.

The faces that disappeared into the memories, the calls that gradually faded, the vows to grit their teeth and never give up when they encouraged themselves again and again, the complex emotions were just like fireworks in the air, fleeting, and finally only the courage to face the dark sky remained.

Singing rang out from the building opposite.

It was Zhong Lei's "Bathing in Fire".

In such a moment of sadness and loneliness, but there is no way to retreat, human beings have obtained a temporary peace, and they need such a song to ignite the fire in their hearts that will not be extinguished but cannot be extinguished.

But on the other side of tranquility, there are still countless people fighting at the forefront of the front.

The family of three walked back, through the nebulization hallway, back to the room, and turned on the communicator.

"Family Communication Request, Waiting for Answer......

Five minutes later, the communication was connected.

The voice of a woman wrapped in a fully enclosed isolation gown appeared.

The clothes on her body looked a bit like a wetsuit, with a glass cover on her head.

Despite the automatic ventilation system, she was still sweating profusely.

She is a paramedic fighting on the front lines, and she has a five-minute break and communication time.

She works at the 626 Centralized Reception Center Hospital, on the edge of the quarantine zone, 1,300 kilometers from the city.

The hospital covers an area of nearly 2,000 acres, and the whole body is covered by a shielding cover of the same level as the Mars base, and the protective effect is almost seamless, completely isolating bacteria from the shield.

Tens of thousands of critically ill patients were admitted here, and although there is still no cure, it can alleviate the suffering of patients as much as possible, allowing them to die relatively peacefully.

She smiled at the camera, "Dad, Mom." Younger brother. Are you all okay? ”

The family of four chatted about it, each talking about their daily life, encouraging each other, and also talking about whose family was missing another person, and the nurse's department lost a comrade-in-arms, and so on.

The exchange was sometimes silent and low, sometimes laughing.

I watched a lot of things, and gradually I felt numb.

But this numbness is not derogatory, but everyone's heart has become more indestructible.

Just as the family of four was chatting, a panicked shout suddenly came from behind the nurse.

The nurse listened back, and then she turned her head with a pale face.

"Mom and Dad! Younger brother! Let's go! Let's go! ”

The father of the family asked, "Where are you going?" ”

The nurse thought for a moment, "How far and how far to go to the depths of the continent far from the wall!" ”

The mother asked, "Where is the end?" Are we coming to pick you up? What the hell is going on? ”

"The S bacteria have mutated and evolved, and they can use mice as carriers and disperse in the air with the breathing of mice. Just now, news came from the hinterland monitoring hospital that there had suddenly been a large outbreak of patients in a completely infection-free residential community. That surveillance hospital is deeper into the safe zone than your residence! There was also an outbreak of concentrated infection in the dormitory of our central hospital, which was an old book that had already become ill. The leader is screening the infected data of the central air-conditioning system, and the results will be available immediately. I don't have time to go into details, so let's go. ”

Because the incubation period of the superbug named S bacteria is too hidden, it is difficult to detect in the early stage, and its contagion is extremely scary, the method of screening patients is now simple and crude.

Whether you have been exposed to infected air.

Yes, then it must have been infected.

No, then it's fine.

The mother shook her head while crying, "No, we're going to pick you up." ”

The nurse looked back at her family and said slowly but firmly, "It's out of control, it's out of control." There are too many rats on the planet, and although the medical conditions in the central hospital are very good, it has become an island in the short term, and we have no supply lines. When you come to me, you are sent to death. ”

As she was talking, the little nurse was shocked, as if she had received some news.

"What's wrong?"

Her family asked one after another.

She shook her head, "It's okay, Mom and Dad, let's go, if you don't leave, I'm afraid it'll be too late." When you get to the rear, someone will definitely come up with a solution. You must live, don't let me die in vain! ”

Syllable!

She turned off the comms, then turned and walked back.

She said to the head nurse through the walkie-talkie: "Sister Lin, I have absorbed infected air in the dormitory area, and I have been diagnosed, so I don't have any luck." ”

Yes, once you are sure that you have breathed the infected air, you are already waiting for the death sentence to be pronounced, and you only have two months to live.

On the other side of the walkie-talkie was the silence of the head nurse, Sister Lin.

It didn't take long for the voice of the middle-aged woman on the opposite side to sound, "Me too." ”

She asked, "Sister Lin, what should we do?" ”

Sister Lin thought for a few minutes, then turned on the whole hospital radio and said the famous "626 Declaration".

"What to do! Keep holding your ground! We can't take off this isolation suit until we die! All infected medical staff regularly go to the disinfection area to change isolation gowns, energy packs and filter bins. Infected and uninfected people will eat separately and live separately from now on. ”

"As long as we don't take off the gown, the bacteria can't escape out of the gown, and then no more people will be infected! We can still move, so we can still do things! Several patients in the intensive care area have shown signs of turning to moderate disease, which is unprecedented. ”

"We have to prove that our treatment options can improve survival rates for severe disease, and the results of our hospital's research are about the confidence of humanity to persevere! So, I'll work until I can't move, until we run out of last bullets. I hope everyone is like me! We, fight to the death! ”

All medical personnel who heard this, whether infected or uninfected, agreed in unison.

"Fight to the death!"

The words of the head nurse, whose name is not recorded in the history books and known only to the world, have inspired all the medical staff and volunteers who have built in the hinterland of the border and quarantine areas, and even in the middle of the zone.

Everyone roared in their hearts that they would "fight to the death".

The infected people, no longer undressed, only wore battle robes, and burned the last drop of blood.

Or, these people rushed out of the hospital on their own initiative, killing the visible mammals one by one with the weapons in their hands, just to reduce the pressure on the rear as much as possible.

People who have not been infected will still not be in panic all day long, but stay quietly in their posts and do what they need to do.

There was a research institute that was wiped out in an instant because one was not noticed.

Everyone has an alarm clock above their heads that counts down to life.

The wonderful thing is that no one panicked, but everyone became relieved, returned to the laboratory peacefully, and continued their research.

Even the originally troublesome and careful work of analyzing and sampling has become simpler, and I spit on myself, that is, a large number of fresh samples.

This research institute, which has thousands of people, witnessed the journey of everyone through the last two months of their lives in such a quiet and tranquil atmosphere, and provided a lot of research references for future generations to study why S bacteria are so perverted.

Two months later, a fire ignited from the depths of the base, incinerating everything, the self-destruct button pressed by the last researcher to close his eyes.

The war has become even more tragic.

Once again, the S bacteria faced by humans have become more ferocious, more cunning, and more difficult to prevent.

Later studies showed that at that time, the S bacteria evolved this time, and its carrier was not only more than mice, but any mammal!

What is even more frustrating is that after infecting other mammals, the S bacteria will become ill, but they will not be fatal at all, and will only make these animals more manic and active.

Bats can fly, rats can escape, cetaceans can cross the sea, and the walls of defense have gone from impregnable to non-existent.

This ghost seems to have intelligence, and its purpose is to destroy humanity.

Once again, the human front is retreating.

Chaos did not come as expected, and although humanity has been defeated in such a tragic rout, it has always been in order.

When everyone understands that there is no way back, they will not panic when they are infected, but they will become relieved.

Batch after batch of infected people abandoned protective measures and rushed out of smaller and smaller safety zones and into larger and larger quarantine zones.

They accomplished a lot with the embers of life.

Manually excavate the separation zone and build a ditch.

Ignite the blocking strip that incinerates the earth.

The infected engineer returned to the factory, re-commissioned the part of the automated runtime that had minor bugs, and set the automatic loop to an infinite length.

The infected production line workers, dragging their tired bodies, returned to the enterprise that was running automatically, replaced the nuclear fission battery pack, which was only half consumed, and replaced it with a new set of battery packs, which could be used for another twenty years.

Or maybe they're replacing solar panels and polishing slightly rusty machines with fresh oil......

The teacher returned to the abandoned school and dug through his desk the final exam papers that had been prepared but had not yet had time to be handed out to the students.

The traffic police returned to their posts and told the infected predators who hurriedly drove around in search of mammals.

Then, when these people had done all the things they were accustomed to, they each took one weapon or another, put on a simple bag, and set out on the path of killing.

I'm sorry, neighbors on Earth.

In the past, we have protected you.

But today, we don't have a choice.

Humans are always selfish.

If you have to choose between the destruction of humanity and the destruction of the earth, then everyone will not hesitate to choose the second option.

Countless martyrs used their last two months of life to build a line of defense in the quarantine area and the safety zone.

Another year of winter and spring.

In this year, humanity lost two-fifths of its population and one-third of its territory.

Compared to before the cataclysm, humanity has only half the population and even less than a third of the territory.

Eventually, however, humanity was able to hold its ground, relying on a high-heat barrier zone large enough to melt the rock.

The high-heat blocking zone ignites the unquenchable flame of humanity.

With the ultra-high magnetodynamic field shield from the upper top to the stratosphere, new safety zones were established.

The magnetic field held up the last giant shield of the heavenly dome of mankind.

With the never-ending, only resounding in people's hearts "Morning Wind".

Humanity is still dormant and struggling, trying to fight for a new life.

But the objective situation is indeed becoming more and more dangerous.

Nearly eight billion people are crammed into less than a third of the territory, and population density has risen sharply.

Energy and materials, which were once inexhaustible, have gradually become more scarce.

If superbugs undergo another phased evolution at this time, with the current population density of human beings, it will really be the end of the world.

However, after two years of hard fighting, the willpower of those who survived became extraordinarily strong.

Humanity decided to counterattack.

We must, and can only find solutions to the problem before superbugs evolve again.

Otherwise, it is perdition!