Chapter 2: The Four Years
Lu Buping just wanted to say something, but was stopped by his father, and passed a look to each other without speaking. The situation is uncertain, the awareness of everything that is happening outside is almost zero, and the best thing to do now is to wait.
In this case, there is not so much attention, everyone is either leaning against the corner of the wall, or lying flat on the cold ground, constantly forcing themselves to forget the picture just now.
Xiao Fang lowered her head and lowered her eyes and whispered, "Brother, will we die?" ”
"There will always be a way, there will be a way." Lu Buping comforted Xiao Fang, and at the same time cheered himself up.
At this time, Lu Buping naively thought that this terrifying scene was the beginning of the apocalypse, who would have thought that for him, the real apocalypse was far from coming.
Ever since the horrors of that day, the survivors have been huddled in this small factory. While everyone is waiting for rescue, they are always paying attention to external news. As time went on, the news could still be received on the phone for the first two or three days, but it was all bad news without exception.
The sudden doomsday virus swept the world, and more than half of the human race turned into living corpses in a short period of time, and launched an attack on the people around them. This mutation cannot be isolated without finding the cause of the disease, and the person who is attacked will be reinfected and turned into a living corpse. Because the source of the disease has not been found, it is more like a random change, neither the government nor the military can be spared, and the entire human society is about to be paralyzed.
When the people heard the news, they were in a state of confusion, some wailing and crying, and some of them had a nervous breakdown. Originally a fortress waiting for rescue, this warehouse now looks more like a coffin to meet death.
The female secretary, Wang Jiaoyan, kept complaining and cursing, scolding the army and the government for being waste, and men being unreliable. But now no one pays attention to her, and it took a long time for her to stop complaining because of weakness.
After another two days, it was completely impossible to receive news from the outside world, and everyone had to give up their illusions and face reality. Even more pressing are the problems of food and water. In the past few days, no one has mentioned this problem because of the mental stress, but now there are several people with poor physical fitness who have symptoms of dehydration.
Among the dozen people, including Lu Buping, there are a total of ten middle-aged men, and the rest are either women or elderly people of my father's age. In order to obtain the necessities of survival, the young people divided into groups and went out in search of supplies. Fortunately, there is no endless road, and there is still a large amount of rice and noodles and water in the canteen of the factory, and everyone divides the materials into small portions and constantly transfers them to the warehouse.
But now the time outside is still in crisis, there is a group that went out and never came back, when Lu Buping and the others went out to look for them, they found that they had become a piece of minced meat, and only half of the head was left to barely distinguish the appearance. As the food problem is solved, the survivors are also exploring the outside world, hoping to find other humans to find information.
A month passed, and in just thirty days, everyone seemed to have been tormented in hell for thirty years.
The first was that another group was attacked by living corpses while out and fled back with only one person. And the female secretary Wang Jiaoyan couldn't stand this kind of life and huge mental pressure, so one day she stole a batch of grain, left the factory, and took two young people with her. As a result, the young main force left in the entire warehouse is becoming more and more scarce.
But Lu Buping doesn't care much about these things, he just wants to be able to take care of his father and sister now, and no matter how much he has, it's a luxury for him. Fortunately, Xiaofang has been taking care of her father for this month, but it is easier for Lu Buping to search outside.
On this day, Lu Buping and a young man went out to explore, and now the rest of the people stayed to guard the warehouse. I finally avoided two groups of living corpses and found some medicines, which was an unexpected surprise. When the two of them happily returned to the factory, they found two large trucks parked at the gate, and the traces of modification were clearly visible, and the front of the car was entangled in barbed wire, which was covered with scarlet residue.
In front of the warehouse, three strong men in brown clothes stood guard around the car, holding shotguns in their hands. The companion who should have stayed behind was lying on the ground at this time, not knowing whether he was alive or dead. I saw a few strange men constantly moving materials from the warehouse to the car, a leader-like person was commanding, and the glamorous female secretary who had escaped before was snuggling in the leader's arms at the moment!
Lu Buping and the two didn't dare to move, so they hid behind a room to observe the situation.
"This bastard who eats inside and out!" Lu Buping gritted his back molars, and he couldn't wait to step forward and slap her. Worried about Xiaofang and his father, Lu Buping didn't dare to step forward and startle the snake rashly. Who would have expected that at this time, the survivors in the house saw that there was not much left of the materials carried by these strangers, and even if they were pointed at gunpoint, they couldn't help it, otherwise they would have to starve to death if they were not shot to death.
I only heard my father's voice coming from the warehouse: "Ladies and gentlemen, it is getting more and more difficult to find food outside, you take away all our supplies, we have to starve to death." Raise your hands and leave some for us. “
"Old Bangzi, what does it matter to me whether you starve to death or not."
"You can keep some, it doesn't matter if my old man eats or not, and these children."
"Get out of here!"
"Peng!" A gunshot rang out in the warehouse, only a muffled grunt was heard, and the sound of falling to the ground was heard.
"Dad, wake up, don't die, Dad!" Xiao Fang's cry rang out.
"Yo he, there is a little sister, crying makes my brother feel distressed, hahaha......"
"Brute!" Lu Buping only felt that his blood was surging, and now he just wanted to go up and fight with these guys, even if he was killed by one shot by them, it was better than being a turtle with a shrunken head here. Just as he was about to rush out, he heard a bang. Lu Buping had a sharp pain in the back of his head, and he fainted as soon as it was dark in front of his eyes.
I saw another young man in the same group as him, holding a wooden stick in his hand at this time, watching Lu Buping slowly fall to the ground. "Dude, don't pull me if you want to die, those guys have guns. This can be regarded as saving your life, don't thank me. The man whispered to Lu Buping, turned around and ran away with a wooden stick in his hand. Only Lu Buping was left lying on the ground with his eyes closed, not knowing whether he was alive or dead.
"Buzz...."With the sound of a car roaring, Lu Buping slowly opened his eyes, and the pain in the back of his head was still there. I saw that the two trucks parked at the door just now gradually started, and after a while, they drove away. Lu Buping lay on the ground, staring at the leader and the beautiful female secretary Wang Jiaoyan, as if he wanted to eat them alive.
After a long pause, Lu Buping regained control of his limbs, and he crawled towards the warehouse step by step, tears mixed with dirt all over his face, and a ball of explosives in his chest that ignited the fuse was about to burst at any time. He didn't want to think about what was going on in the warehouse, but he couldn't control his thoughts. He was afraid to see the tragic picture of his father lying in a pool of blood and Xiaofang being abused. But I was lucky, hoping that everything would not be as bad as I imagined.
Finally, he crawled to the door of the warehouse, his knees and arms worn out, and the blood smeared on the ground into a straight marker. He wanted to remember all this pain in his mind, deep in his bone marrow, which was his motivation for revenge and the motivation to continue to live.
Lu Buping raised his head with difficulty and looked into the warehouse......
"Ah" With an exclamation, Lu Buping woke up. He sat on the bed, panting heavily, cold sweat running down his head. Looking back, the pillow was already wet, and I didn't know if it was sweat or tears. The surrounding area is still the same apartment room, and when I look down, I see that my backpack, dagger, etc. are all next to the bed.
It was the second time he had woken up, and since what had happened, the experience had haunted him like a nightmare every night. But at every critical moment, his memory seems to be broken, and there is no impression of what happened after that. Lu Buping knew that he was episodic amnesia, also known as selective amnesia. This type of amnesia is a defense mechanism in psychology. In layman's terms, if a person encounters a powerful stimulus that the person cannot accept, then, out of the brain's self-protection, the subconscious will choose to forget about it, and it will form "selective amnesia".
In Lu Buping's impression, the last memory point was that the moment he raised his eyes, when he regained his memory again, he was already in a human survivor's stronghold. The people in the colony found themselves when they were out looking for food. And that base was several kilometers away from the original factory.
After recovery, Lu Buping became a scavenger and foot trader, relying on his boldness to search for all kinds of supplies under the noses of living corpses, while traveling around various human strongholds to exchange. Later, Lu Buping returned to the factory and found that the original warehouse was empty, with no corpses and no blood. What happened in the warehouse, what happened to Dad and Xiaofang, why did he appear hundreds of miles away, these questions turned into shadows that lingered in his heart.
He knew that in order to find out the truth of the matter, he first had to find the organization that had robbed the resources in the first place, the leader and the female traitor. They were all at the door when Lu Buping was unconscious for the first time, and they should know what was going on inside.
Just keep looking and growing. The original ordinary worker has also become a qualified post-apocalyptic survivor. Prudence and safety come first, and if you can avoid conflicts, try to avoid them. If you can't avoid it, you have to become ruthless, and if you want to survive, you have to be more ruthless than others. Lu Buping pursued this principle and began to look for the original organization, and it took four years to find it.