Volume 1: The Eve of Doom Chapter 17
(Well, in order to make yesterday's chapters and today's chapters better connected, some changes have been made to yesterday's chapters, and they are combined with today's. οΌ
Kay Shelley Bakery is about 100 meters away from the convenience store, and nearly 1 kilometer away from the residential building, of course, this is the distance after the detour, and the straight-line distance is more than 300 meters. The bakery is located on the first floor of a five-story building, and on its right-hand side is a staircase leading to the rest of the building, with a large green iron door in front of which has several dents in several places, but it is not unusable.
On the third floor of the building, directly above the Shelley bakery, is a residential building area of 80 square meters, with two bedrooms, one living room, one kitchen and one bathroom, the kitchen and bathroom are connected together, and the dividing line is a two-meter-high partition wall. The two bedrooms are also connected together, separated by a partition wall with a height of 1.8 meters, the larger one is the master bedroom, and the small shop is the guest bedroom.
The living room is located in the middle of the house, and there is a large coffee table used as a cooking table, and on the side of the bedroom there are two mahogany Taishi chairs, and between the two Taishi chairs there is a smaller coffee table, and under the window on the south side, there is a long hard sofa leaning on it, which is full of miscellaneous items. Directly opposite the sofa is a TV cabinet. So many clutters made the already small living room even more crowded, and at this moment, there were still six people squeezed into the living room!
One of them was tall, with weapons tied to his back, waist, and thighs, it was Qin Tianwu, and the other five occupied the only open space in the living room, and four of them sat on the ground in a circle around the city, and their mouths were full of words, they had a characteristic, thin, and they were either over sixty years old or under ten years old.
A man in his mid-forties stood between them, in his mid-thirties, his hands outstretched, his left hand holding a half-filled opaque plastic bag, his head slightly raised, his eyes half-closed. When the last note came out of his mouth, the people bowed their heads and bowed, and after the prayer, they began to read again, repeating it three times, and the middle man opened the plastic bag, took out two unopened bottles of 200 milliliters of mineral water, and a pack of 20 biscuits, and distributed them among the four people.
On the north side of the bakery, there is a small park full of banyan trees, and opposite the bakery is a real estate that has been suspended due to illegal land acquisition, and the construction site has been suspended for many years, and the building has long been empty, leaving only two 30-meter-high cranes and three buildings with about 10 floors, standing there rusty.
As a result, there are far fewer infected people on this road than in other places, and it is easy to bypass them even if they encounter them. Therefore, Bai Yunlian came to the vicinity of the bakery without much effort, and at this time, Wei Yilin leaned on the pillar at the door of the bakery alone, holding an unlit cigarette in his left hand, gently put it twenty centimeters away from his lips, and then exhaled after taking it away.
Like Wei Yilin, Bai Yunlian also wore a black hood, covering her face tightly, revealing only her eyes as quiet as autumn waves. Although Wei Yilin couldn't see Bai Yunlian's expression, he could feel anxiety from her hurried steps.
"Is he alright?" Wei Yilin asked before Bai Yunlian, and at the same time threw away the cigarette in his hand, and then slowly flattened it with his black military boots.
"Nope. Who was hurt? Is it serious? β
"It's good if you don't have it." Wei Yilin's unusual reaction surprised Bai Yunlian, but before Bai Yunlian could say anything, Wei Yilin turned around and opened the iron door that was stuck with a broken brick, this old-fashioned iron door needs to be unlocked with a key, so even if the power supply has been cut off for a long time, it can still open and close normally, as a barrier for the survivors living in the building. The two walked into the stairwell one after the other, Wei Yilin turned around and gently kicked open the stone of the carmen, and the door slowly closed under the action of the spring.
As soon as they reached the third floor, the two saw Qin Tianwu and Zhong Wenfeng guarding the door of a residence, the two doors of the residence had been opened, a faint light shot out of the door, and a few subtle conversations came from inside the door from time to time.
"Captain."
"Captain."
Wei Yilin nodded to the two of them separately: "What about Hu Luquan?" β
"Inside." Qin Tianwu said, glanced at the room, and called out in a mocking tone, "King Xuda." Then he pointed to the staircase.
After a while, a middle-aged man in his forties walked out of the room, this person had a Chinese face, big bright eyes, and his face was full of luster and confidence.
"Captain Lee." Hu Luquan bowed his head slightly like Wei Yilin, and then looked over Wei Yilin and hit Bai Yunlian in the face behind, and then swept down, and naturally saw the silver-white medicine box, "Thank you very much." β
Bai Yunlian quietly stabbed Qin Tianwu's small waist, suppressed her voice to the lowest, and asked quietly, "The captain's face doesn't seem to be right?" β
Qin Tianwu bent down, bit Bai Yunlian's ear and said, "It's not Zhong Wenfeng's kid, the captain didn't want to care about them, but he wanted to talk to them." β
"Who are these?"
"Not a good person, be careful yourself."
Bai Yunlian nodded, glanced around the corridor again, and didn't know if it was caused by psychological hints, she suddenly felt that this corridor was a lot darker.
"Where are the wounded?" Wei Yilin didn't seem to be interested in Hu Luquan, his tone was stiff and emotionless.
"It's in that house. I'll take you there. β
"No need, she can go over herself, let's talk about it now." Saying that, Wei Yilin turned his head and glanced at Bai Yunlian, Bai Yunlian nodded and walked in the opposite direction to Hu Luquan. On the other side, Hu Luquan, who wanted to say something, was already surrounded by three people in the middle.
"Do you know what you're doing?" Wei Yilin asked Hu Luquan lukewarmly, he knew that Bai Yunlian would not be able to finish the matter so quickly, so he was not in a hurry to go straight to the point.
"Hell is empty, evil spirits are alive, only by believing in Buddha, repenting quietly, exposing one's crimes, sooner or later, the three provinces, can be liberated." Hu Luquan said that his right hand was still subconsciously erected in front of his chest, and then he recited a few words that Wei Yilin didn't understand at all.
"The three of you raise the four of them?"
Looking at Wei Yilin's suspicious eyes, Hu Luquan smiled generously: "Meng Ziyun: the old man, and the old man; The young of me, and the young of man. I used to wear a green shirt, and now, in a year of natural disasters and epidemics, I am only doing my best. β
"Then why are you making up the Vada?"
Hu Luquan was not angry at Wei Yilin's endless questioning, and patiently replied: "They believe this. β
Wei Yilin bit his lip and nodded: "Based on your observation, how long does it take for a person to mutate after being bitten?" β
Hu Luquan frowned slightly, and the Adam's apple turned twice before he said: "I only met once, half a month ago, a thin old man, nine hours. β
"Write it down." Wei Yilin said this to Qin Tianwu, who immediately took out a palm-sized notepad from the pocket of his combat uniform, took off the ballpoint pen inserted on it, and wrote it "brush, brush, brush".
"Do they have any weaknesses?"
Hu Luquan shrugged his shoulders and said with a smile: "I don't know." β
"What about the features? Joy of light? Tired of light? Prefer moisture? Wet aversion? Wei Yilin asked like a cannon.
Hu Luquan smiled and shook his head several times: "I'm sorry, I'm not engaged in research." However, I have observed that those who are infected will kill each other. β
This is not new news.
"Have you noticed any other ways of transmission besides biting?"
Shake oneβs head.
"Have you seen any other infected creatures? Like dogs, cats, mice? β
A hint of fear suddenly flashed in Hu Luquan's eyes, and it took about thirty seconds for him to say in a slightly trembling voice: "Yes, dogs can contract this disease, last time I saw a mutated Alaska, it killed four people!" Cats, I haven't seen them yet. β
It's still old news, and Wei Yilin doesn't plan to spit out anything more from Hu Luquan: "The last question." When did this plague start? It's better to be accurate. β
"A month ago, but I think I've heard someone bite someone a long time ago."
"How long is it?"
"I don't remember exactly, but it was definitely a month ago, because the place was getting messy."
"Huh?"
"Roar" Suddenly, a low roar made everyone stand up their pores, and Wei Yilin instantly turned to the direction where the roar came from: Yun Lian! Then he pulled his steps like an arrow from Hyun, and swooped down on the room at the other end of the corridor.
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Two men stood face to face in the living room of the house with the iron and wooden doors completely open, and near the door was a young man with a bear's back, throwing at his feet a wooden stick with four nails nailed in different directions, but all rusty and mottled with blood. The young man raised his hands high above his head, his face was full of overwhelmed smiles, and the other person stood in front of the door of the master bedroom, with his back against the door frame, and his slightly bent right hand held a cold pistol, behind the front sight of the pistol was Bai Yunlian's frosty eyes, and before the front sight was the young man's chest! The two are about four meters apart.
The structure of this house was not much different from the one Hu Luquan came out of, except that it was much dirtier, and the smell of blood in the room was much stronger, the coral orange floor tiles were covered with mottled bloodstains, and the original white wall ash was also stained with black-brown bloodstains.
On the door of the master bedroom, there is a large spray of blood, and on the ground is a reddish-brown lake, as wide as Lake Superior and as deep as Lake Baikal. The most striking thing in the master bedroom is a pale face, which is covered with black silk mixed with a little dirt, a pair of blood-red eyes nailed under the forehead, under the eyes is a deeply sunken nose bridge, the two blood-stained nostrils are like two small black holes, arching against the larger "black hole" below them, the strong smell of blood hits the face.
"Roar" The infected struggled, and with each scream, he spat out several clumps of blood foam, and its gray-black pus-covered and slightly rotted arms were bound by several thin but strong wires on the Taishi chair, and under the Taishi chair, there were several arms, a shell, and two heads, one of which stared at blood-red eyes, the corners of his mouth were bloodshot, and the other had half-closed eyes and a face splattered with blood.
The infected person in the master bedroom became more and more excited, and the Taishi chair kept making "squeak" and "squeak" sounds due to its violent movements, and the wounds on its wrists were also cut deeper and deeper by the wire, and the red and black blood kept gushing up.
"What's wrong?" A black shadow as strong as a hill blocked the main entrance of the house, and the eager voice made the young man's cold sweat flow out, and the infected person in the house became more and more excited by the soundβthree meals per meal!
"You feed it with a living man?" Bai Yunlian asked coldly the young man who was surrounded by the two.
"No...... That's the king of Hudhari's...... Target...... She...... She's infected......" The young man's hand unconsciously rested on his chest and gestured indiscriminately, and although he had killed many of the infected, perhaps the living ones, he was still in a state of confusion when his own life and death depended entirely on his opponent.
"You go out first, I'll explain." Hu Luquan didn't know when he appeared behind Wei Yilin, and behind him was Qin Tianwu, whose muzzle was slightly raised.
"Yes." The young man answered, waved his hand, said something in his mouth, and then squeezed out through the crack in the door.
The "roar" infected person became more and more excited, and her hands were about to be cut by wire, but her own blood seemed to stimulate her nerves even more, and the range of its struggle became greater and greater, and the fragile Taishi chair was already crumbling.
Bai Yunlian pointed the muzzle of the gun at the head of the infected, and after a moment, she seemed to feel that the pistol could no longer give her enough security, so she inserted the pistol back into her waist and replaced it with the submachine gun behind her back.
"Don't do that! Don't do that, please, please. Unexpectedly, after seeing this scene, Hu Luquan, who had always been humble and silent, had his pupils dilated sharply, and his hands were clasped in front of his chest like his "believers", "Please, don't." β
"If it breaks free, we'll all die." Bai Yunlian threatened, in fact, in front of the gun, how could the infected person break free?
"Don't mess with it, let me close the door, shut the door." Hu Luquan said, and without waiting for the others to agree, he raised his feet and stepped forward, Bai Yunlian subconsciously took a few steps back, keeping an arm's length from Hu Luquan, it was obvious that she was afraid that Hu Luquan would suddenly grab the gun.
Before Hu Luquan closed the door, Wei Yilin quietly glanced at the master bedroom.
"It's my wife, and I've been married for twenty years." Hu Luquan put up two fingers, emphasizing the time, "How many ups and downs have you gone through with me......"
Wei Yilin didn't want to hear these words, because he hadn't experienced them, and no matter what Hu Luquan said, he couldn't understand it, but he didn't interrupt the other party.
"That day, I came home from a meeting. She told me that she had been bitten by a madman and that a large piece of flesh was missing from her arm. That blood, 'booming' flowing......"
In Hu Luquan's narration, the two slowly learned about the night when the infection finally broke out. Hu Luquan immediately sent his wife to the Huanzhou City Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, but the situation there was also not optimistic, the emergency department was crowded with bitten people, the entire corridor was filled with the smell of blood, and the sound of wailing and screaming was endless.
From time to time, the security guards with a lot of blood stains on the blue uniform carried away a few crazy people who were gnawing and biting, and one by one the people covered in blood were pushed into the emergency room, and then pushed out, and slowly there were more and more crazy people in the corridor, and the sounds of fighting, scolding, and screaming became more and more frequent, and in the second half of the night, the police came, and they shot into the sky, but to no avail, and two of them were knocked down.
Seeing that the scene was getting more and more out of control, Hu Luquan hurriedly hugged his wife into the car, and he decided to leave Huanzhou. But what made him never arrive first was that the cars waiting to get on the highway had already lined up for eight or nine thousand meters, and Hu Luquan was thinking of a way, when suddenly a madman with a bloody mouth put his face on the glass of the cab, almost not scaring Hu Luquan into a heart attack......
Hu Luquan, who finally calmed down, escaped from the clutches of the infected with his wife's life, and in the process, slowly gathered a group of survivors, sometimes ten people, but in the process, his wife's actions became more and more wrong, and the desire to attack became more and more obvious, Hu Luquan had no choice but to lock her in a chair. In other words, the final part of his wife's mutation was completed on this Taishi chair.
When he finished speaking, both men in front of him reacted visibly, certainly not by his top-notch presentation skills. Bai Yunlian thought that in Hu Luquan's narrative, his wife had experienced four days from being bitten to completely losing her mind! But yesterday, Lin Qiuxue's process from being bitten to the onset of illness was not even six hours! What's going on? But what Wei Yilin was thinking in his heart was something else: Hu Luquan used infected people to feed his wives, so how did he catch them and send them to his wife's mouth?
"Tell me about the process by which you caught the infected." Wei Yilin decided to only ask what was meaningful, and at the same time, he also said to Bai Yunlian, "Yunlian, go and help his subordinates take a look." β
"No, no, no, he's my godfather, and I don't have any subordinates."
"Where is he?"
"It's in the next unit, I just neglected it, I'm sorry to frighten you."
"I'll do my best."
"Thank you very much." Hu Lu thanked him in his mouth and made a gesture in his hands.
The infected in the master bedroom did not scream so often, and it seemed that the visual impact on it was quite large.
"Actually, crazy people are not so scary, it's just that we lost first in our hearts, and we don't have the right weapons. Therefore, I usually use stratagem. with two of my friends. "One person is responsible for leading an infected person up to a house on the second floor, while the other person hides behind the door of the house, and when the infected person passes in front of him, he puts a hammer on the back of the infected's head, and the other person takes this stick with an iron nail, and if the infected person can still stand up, he gives it a stick." β
"It's going to eat this? Don't eat anything else? β
Hu Luquan nodded: "In addition to eating this, just drink a little water." β
"What are your plans for the future?"
"Aren't you guys working on a vaccine? I believe that one day, my wife will be cured. β
"Yes, but we may not succeed, and now the country is stepping forward, and it is unknown whether we can survive until that moment."
Hu Luquan did not show the slightest suspicion about Wei Yilin's half-truths, it has been a month since the complete fall of Huanzhou, and there has been no news from the outside world, nor has there been any rescue arrival, which in the eyes of him and the thousands of survivors in Huanzhou City, the state apparatus has indeed stopped functioning.
"I'm going to wait until the vaccine comes out." Hu Luquan didn't hear Wei Yilin's words at all, just repeated the same meaning.
"What about them?"
"Like me, my friends and I will support them until the world returns to normal."
"The shops around here have all been looted, right?" Compared with others, Wei Yilin was most concerned about this, in that convenience store just now, the calories they found were not as good as the ones they consumed.
"yes, I'm planning a migration too." Hu Luquan shrugged his shoulders and smiled helplessly.
"Where do you want to go?"
"The world is so big, where can I go? I, my friends, and the old people have all lived in Huanzhou for decades. When you see the road, you go. β
The wind is blowing outside the window again, and the autumn wind envelops the entire Huanzhou City, although it has removed a little bit of blood, but it cannot bring hope, perhaps this is the reason why sunlight is indispensable.
Wei Yilin and the others did not make any more stops in the residential building, and as soon as Bai Yunlian was done, she proposed to leave, and Hu Luquan did not stay, and sent everyone to the gate and went back. The four of them looked at the empty street, and there seemed to be a thousand thoughts in their hearts.
"How is that man?"
"I got to my foot and sprayed some Yunnan Baiyao."
"It's strange that they didn't ask to come with us." Zhong Wenfeng, who was walking behind, was full of doubts, "It's very unreasonable." β
As soon as Wei Yilin heard Zhong Wenfeng speak, a trace of disgust flashed through his heart.
"Captain, how much do you think Hu Luquan's words about his wife are true?"
"You study medicine, do you think those two corpses on the ground are sick?"
Bai Yunlian closed her eyes, and the image of the master bedroom quickly appeared in her mind, and then slowly enlarged the two corpses, and then called up an image of a normal person, and compared the two images, after a while, her eyes suddenly widened, and her lips opened slightly, as if she had found something terrible. Bai Yunlian glanced at Wei Yilin with a frightened face, but found that the latter was also looking at her, looking at each other, Bai Yunlian seemed to be electrocuted, and her hair almost didn't stand on endβfrom Wei Yilin's eyes, she actually read the definite meaning.
"Why don't you expose him?"
"And then? What to do with him? Looking at Bai Yunlian, who was speechless for a while, Wei Yilin took a deep breath and said, "The superiors stipulate that no one can be taken out of Huanzhou, so as not to spread the virus." β
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