Chapter 28: Enter the building
This time the road was surprisingly smooth, there was no more search and rescue team blocking the road, nor did they encounter the attack of the zombie group, the K team members who have long been accustomed to the dilapidated city in front of them, drowsy in the car, experienced so much in a short period of time, the sudden silence unconsciously made everyone relax, in the roar of the engine, Da Zhuang even snored.
As the car drove through the steely forest, tenacious plants were already blooming in the cracks of the roads, on the walls of buildings, and on outdoor billboards. The dark building's glass doors and windows are full of cracks; Abandoned vehicles in the middle of the road and shared bicycles that fell to the side have begun to rust; The sewers have not been cleaned and dredged for a long time, and the filthy black water gushes out, emitting a disgusting smell under the sun; There are also zombies on the streets, whose gray-black skinned limbs and severed legs are slowly rotting there.
Such an environment is easy to breed bacteria, there is no power supply, some of the only materials in the city are slowly deteriorating and moldy at different temperatures day and night, the only pure water is about to be carried by the people in the city, there is no clean drinking water provided by the waterworks, and people have begun to fight for life and death because of the limited materials.
Just yesterday, another group of spontaneously organized evacuees were attacked by mutated creatures and zombie groups because of the lack of supplies and the delay in rescue, although the Security Council repeatedly distributed notices through helicopters to tell the trapped people not to evacuate without authorization, but there are still people who evacuate to the safety zone regardless of the danger to their lives, because after the outbreak of the virus, the materials left in the shopping malls and supermarkets in the city are very limited, and they have not been reasonably distributed, and they have been coaxed by the spontaneously organized masses, resulting in a large amount of materials being wasted. The weaker groups have not been able to grab much of the supplies, and the phenomenon of starvation has already begun to spread.
Larger groups, due to the continuous growth of their ranks and the increasing population, have embarked on the road of robbery, and incidents of fighting between groups have begun to become common.
Sometimes human beings are really only in such an environment that they are really aware of the things that we are accustomed to and do not take to heart, but at this time they have to guard with their lives, and a pack of cookies that are close to expiration may make you lose your life.
Groups like Flower Shirts are in the current N City, there are hundreds of groups of people, large and small, they are all based on the surviving people in the community or residential area as a unit, spontaneously gathered together, everyone divided labor and cooperated, some went out to collect supplies, some went to receive the supplies airdropped by the Security Council on time, and some spontaneously organized death squads to fight zombies, which seemed to be peaceful, but as the material components in the city were reduced and even wasted, the contradictions between groups were intensified.
There are also many trapped people who are dissatisfied with the speed of the government's rescue, since the central square incident, the government has no longer dispatched a large number of rescues, although some people said they understand the government's cautious attitude after this incident, but the vast majority of people are complaining, not only more and more people in the city are infected with X, because of the pollution of the environment and the lack of food, the number of people suffering from other diseases is also increasing.
The team members who entered the city to search and rescue, almost all of them had the experience of confronting zombies head-on, and some of the groups had been attacked by mutant creatures, and now there are many mutated creatures in the city, everyone still doesn't know, these monsters hidden in the shadows, so that the soldiers who have experienced it are terrified, and Zhang Weimin and how many other group members who entered N City on the same day to search and rescue, no one knows, because their information has been all canceled that night, Even the only helicopter group that returned empty-handed was collectively executed as if all of them were infected, and overnight everyone forgot about the 15 groups of 139 fighters as if nothing had happened, some of them really didn't know, but some of those who knew were coerced and lured to evaporate the matter.
The central government was also concealed, so there was a second batch of search and rescue teams into the city, this group of search and rescue teams was assigned the task of finding out the X reagent samples and bringing them out, the search and rescue was just by the way to show the central government and the outside world, of course, the new batch of search and rescue team soldiers did not know the conspiracy behind this, as for what kind of organization the X reagent would hand over to after it was found, everyone did not know, what kind of things this organization would do with X, then no one would know.
The second group of search and rescue teams entering the city after a day of mission, the casualties are also relatively heavy, each team also has soldiers killed, the situation is not very optimistic, after experiencing casualties, some of these people have begun to just want to find X reagent as soon as possible and leave N City, for the search and rescue of the masses is no longer their primary goal.
Indeed, a group of team members thought of the possible place to get the X sample, and they went directly to the first hospital, because it was the first place to be put into the city for the people to use, and when the first hospital made free injections for the first batch of people in need of help for the residents of the city, the hospital was surrounded by water that morning, and people with a little cold and cough also went to inject X, because the injected people lived in various areas of N city, which was also the most direct cause of the outbreak of the virus in multiple points in the city. Many people have mutations caused by abnormalities in their bodies 78 hours after the injection of X, and now there is a problem that people dare not think about, although the first batch of free injections will only be implemented for residents of the city, but it is not excluded that there are residents of the city who need to go out of the city......
This group of team members rushed directly to the gate of the first hospital yesterday afternoon, the car was surrounded by a large number of zombies before it approached the hospital, all the way to the car finally drove to the entrance of the hospital, the team members on the car were completely stunned by the sight, the hospital walls were full of disgusting transparent liquid that grew out of the hospital I don't know what it was, those liquids are solid like jelly, dark purple translucent, and you can vaguely see that these liquids are also wrapped in motionless pedestrian objects.
This object is also full of zombies standing around, seeing such a scene, the team members are at a loss, look at the zombie group that is rushing towards them outside the hospital gate behind the car, the team members almost gave up resistance, the car really can't get out, just like that, the 9 soldiers on the two cars drowned in the corpse tide with the car.
The car gradually approached the J Medicine Building, the familiar square in front of the J Medicine Building appeared in front of everyone, the big iron gate outside the square has been broken at some point, and it fell to the side, rusty, the surrounding plants are growing very crazy, the communication room next to the gate has been all wrapped, and the name of J Biomedical Technology Research Co., Ltd. on the wall on one side has also fallen off several, entering the courtyard, there are several company transport vehicles with deflated tires scattered on the square, The bench that Zhang Weimin stepped on when he singled out the giant zombies in the square also fell backwards into the flower bed, and the wood on it was also warped there due to the erosion of the rain.
The three cars slowly drove to the square and parked, everyone put on their backpacks, took their equipment and got out of the car, looking at the building in front of them, which was once crowded and made countless drugs that contributed to human medical treatment, now it seems to have been weathered, the vines of the creeper are all over the building, because it is late autumn, the leaves are almost gone, and the vines are like the devil's minions, firmly grasping the building, looking from the bottom up, there are not a few glasses or complete, and the open space outside the hall on the first floor has fallen a broken glass, and the building has been cut off. It still looked eerie during the day, with a cool breeze blowing through the hall.
Before entering the building, Zhang Weimin asked everyone to check their equipment, and everyone tried the light on the helmet, debugging the weapon in their hands, and Da Zhuang also took out the flamethrower from his backpack, which was the weapon he dreamed of using to deal with zombies, and he was very excited.
After everything was packed and checked, everyone gathered together to make the final arrangements before entering the building.
Zhang Weimin said solemnly: "J Medicine Building has a total of 29 floors, including three underground floors, 26 floors above ground, drug research and development on the 21st floor, this floor is the main destination of our mission today, everyone must follow closely, don't get separated, J Medicine has done various experiments, this is also the origin of zombie mutation, so there is an unknown danger inside, we don't know, everyone must be careful, I don't want to have a brother who suffers misfortune again, do you understand?" ”
"Well," everyone said in unison.
After speaking, everyone walked towards the hall according to the pre-arranged formation, Guo Lin and Da Zhuang walked at the front of the team, Zhang Weimin followed, followed by Chen Wanru, Sun Yijun and Yin Chenbao in the middle, and Wei Hao walked at the end.
The military boots stepped on the glass shards in the open space outside the building, walked up a few stairs, passed through the glass door, and came to the hall on the first floor of J medicine, the security detector still stood there, but there was no sound when walking over, the sofa and chairs in the rest area on the side were crooked, the display boards and corporate logos hanging on the wall had also fallen to the ground, and the decorative plants had already withered due to no one watering for a long time. The elevators had long since ceased to run, and the iron doors of the six elevators were closed, and no one knew what floors they had stopped on.
To go to the 21st floor, everyone can only take the stairs, which is also a challenge for everyone's physical fitness, normal people climb the 21st floor is already a very physical thing, not to mention that everyone is still carrying more than a dozen kilograms of equipment, this is indeed a big challenge, the most important thing is that they have to pay attention to the unknown danger in the dark at any time.
Came to the stairwell, everyone observed the surroundings, everything was normal, but the silence was terrible, Guo Lin took the lead in holding the gun, three steps and two steps to the first and a half floors, he held the gun and looked up, confirmed that it was safe, and used gestures to summon everyone to follow, and the others immediately maintained a good formation, and followed one by one.
Except for a few corpses of staff members who have been zombied along the way, there is basically no danger, when everyone climbed to the 17th floor, most of the people's wheezing sound has been aggravated, Zhang Weimin immediately ordered everyone to rest in place in the stairwell, Guo Lin was on guard above, and Wei Hao was on guard at the rear.
Yin Chenbao sat down on the ground tiredly, inhaled heavily and said, "I haven't climbed such a high floor for a long time, I'm really tired." ”
Chen Wanru looked at Yin Chenbao, who was sitting on the ground, and handed over a piece of chocolate to him to replenish his strength, and everyone also took out a kettle from their backpacks to replenish their water.
Suddenly, Guo Lin, who was standing on the upper floor, motioned for everyone to be quiet, so everyone immediately stopped what they were doing and listened quietly, a slight roar came from upstairs, and everyone understood what these sounds were.
So everyone immediately picked up the gun, carefully followed Guo Lin upstairs, and came to the back of the safe passage door on the 19th floor, the roar became clearer and clearer, Guo Lin who was attached to the door pointed to the door, and everyone nodded knowingly, they knew that there were zombies not far behind the door.
Zhang Weimin whispered to everyone: "We don't know how many zombies there are in the building now, so let's not be easily alarmed, let's go directly to the 21st floor." After that, Zhang Weimin asked everyone to install silencers on their guns to reduce the sound of gunfire that would attract more zombies.
Everyone left the 19th floor safety passage door softly, and continued to move towards the 21st floor, Guo Lin was the first to come to the 21st floor, the 21st floor safety passage door was not closed, it was open there, it was pitch black inside, he quickly turned off the light on his head, stood quietly at the door, and several people behind him also turned off the lights one after another.
Guo Lin turned around and asked in a low voice, "Team Zhang, shall we go in?" ”
Zhang Weimin said: "I will go in first with you, and the others will stay outside the door first." After speaking, he walked quickly to Guo Lin's side and leaned in with him.
A few people guarding the door vaguely watched the figures of the two people disappear into the darkness, and Da Zhuang said uneasily: "Shall we follow?" ”
Wei Hao, who was standing at the end of the line, looked downstairs and said, "Don't be impulsive. ”
About ten minutes later, there was a faint light on the 21st floor, and the people standing at the door knew that it was Zhang Weimin and Guo Lin who turned on the headlights, indicating that everything was safe, and several people also turned on the headlights and walked in, and Wei Hao carefully closed the safety passage door by the way.
The place that was burned by the fire before was only briefly treated, and there were still black marks on the walls and doors that had been burned by everyone, and it seemed that the company had not had time to renovate the research room that was set on fire by Professor Chen Yuli.
A few people walked into the research room to observe the surroundings, all kinds of instruments, test tubes, beakers and other instruments were parked in the distance, but there was a thick dust on it, everyone paced to the place where Zhang Weimin and Guo Lin stopped, everyone shone forward together, and a closed door in front of them was obviously brand new than the door of the surrounding office, which was the renovated office of Professor Chen Yuli.