Fifty-seven, slaughterhouse (5)

"What about the other doctors, where have they gone?" Old man David was full of food and drink, and his whole brain returned to normal operation, looking at the doctor's cold face, the words blocked in his heart still couldn't help but pop up.

"We're celebrating, can we go back?" Eric pursed his lips and raised his glass at Old David's to remind him.

"Wait, is this just the question I want to ask?" David was very stubborn, this question was in his stomach, and he was uncomfortable, he looked around at everyone, and saw that everyone's eyes were a little flashing, knowing that they also wanted to know the answer to this question, so he nodded and continued to ask the doctor, "We only found you in a huge center, why?" What about the others? Eaten by you? Haha, of course it's just a joke. Although David was really just joking, as soon as he finished speaking, W and Little W immediately put down the barbecue steak in their hands.

"When the virus broke out and the disaster struck, many people left and went to find their families," the doctor said, cutting the meat from his plate twice, looking up at the crowd, "and then the situation got worse and worse, and the army's defense line collapsed and the rest of the people ran away. ”

"The rest are gone, too?" David asked with a disbelieving smile.

"No, many have had a nervous breakdown and committed suicide ......," the doctor said to Davy after eating a piece of meat and being silent for a moment.

"You didn't leave, why?" David asked with a sigh.

"I'm a scientist and want to do something useful," the doctor said coldly.

"You're going to be a disappointment," Eric felt that the interest in drinking was gone, and stood up with the bottle, ready to go back to the bedroom to drink again, but everyone couldn't continue, and smiled awkwardly with the doctor, and hastily ended the celebration.

"Most places in the center have lost power, so you can only make do here, the sofa is very comfortable, and the bed is not bad," the doctor guided Lei Yan and the others to the rest area, pointed to a row of empty rooms and said to everyone, "There is also a recreation room over there," the doctor pointed to the other side, reminding everyone, "Anything that requires electricity is not allowed, if you want to take a shower and have hot water," After saying that, the doctor walked away with a blank face, looking like a walking corpse or a conspirator.

Lei Yan and the others hadn't taken any baths for a long time, and when they heard that there was hot water at this moment, they were all overjoyed, and at the same time they felt extremely itchy on their bodies, so they went into the pleasing room and began to take a hot bath, feeling very happy.

The next morning, I took a hot shower, slept well, and ate a hot and delicious meal in the restaurant, everyone felt very comfortable except for Eric, who had drunk too much yesterday and W was there to take care of him.

"Doctor, I don't want to get up early in the morning and ask questions," Davy was older, got up early, thought a lot, ate eggs, drank milk, and his question popped up again.

"But you still ask," the doctor said, tilting his head and looking at Old David.

"You're a virus expert, I want to know what's going on out there?" David frowned, gestured twice with his hand in front of him, and asked, "How can a good person become like that after being bitten?" Do you say you're going to move when you're dead? ”

"You want to know too, right?" The Doctor looked at the crowd, and everyone was staring at him to see how he answered, and the Doctor knew that he couldn't avoid the question, so he put down the coffee cup in his hand, waved to everyone, and led the way to the circular control hall.

"Kim, play back the video of Test 110," on the circular platform of the hall, the doctor stood in front of a computer control device, and after two taps on the keyboard, he ordered the computer assistant Kim, and a perspective image of the human brain immediately appeared on the large LCD screen in front of the group, which looked reminiscent of a CT picture.

"Is that the brain?" David asked.

"That's right," the doctor replied with a tilt of his head, and gave another command to the computer assistant, "show me an enlarged view of the interior," and the perspective image of the brain on the giant screen immediately moved to the center of the brain, revealing a blue neural network with many spots of light glowing with strange blue light, like sapphires.

"Whose brain is this?" Lei Yan looked at the image on the giant screen and asked the doctor.

"Test Item One Hundred and Ten, a person who was bitten by a virus and volunteered to have us record the transition," the Dr. replied.

"What are those bright spots?" Xiao W stared at the giant screen, felt amazing, and couldn't help asking.

"It's life," the doctor glanced at Little W, smiled, and pointed to the giant screen and said to everyone, "It's the experience, it's the memory, everything is here, all of these things make you, make you different, and make you human." ”

"I don't understand," asked W, pouting.

"Those spots are neurites, electrical impulses in the brain, from the moment you are born, control all your internal and external, mental and physiological activities, until you die," the doctor tapped twice on the keyboard next to him, and the image on the giant screen shrank out of the brain again, and the image changed back to the perspective of the side of the head, the difference is that a black thing spreads from the spine to the spot area in the middle of the brain, and soon, all the spots in the brain are eliminated, and the inside of the brain is gray.

"Is he dead?" Eric asked.

"Yes, the virus enters the brain and causes the brain to die, you go on and look down, the bottom is the key," the doctor reminded the crowd, and after finishing and tapping the keyboard twice, the image on the giant screen began to fast-forward, until a purple, ash-like flash of light began to appear in the spinal canal of the image, and the doctor pressed the stop button.

"What's going on?" Eric asked, frowning.

"He's mutated, which means he's a walking corpse," the doctor said to Eric as he looked at the surprised crowd.

"How long will it take to become a walking corpse?" Lei Yan stared at the giant screen and asked.

"It's uncertain, it can be long or short, it varies from person to person, but in the data we have now, it's as short as five minutes, and as long as ten hours," replied the doctor, tapping twice on his keyboard, "and as for the one in front of us, it's about an hour and twenty-six minutes, and ten seconds." ”

"Is their brain responding again?" David asked, staring at the flickering purple spots.

"No, it's just the brainstem, which controls the autonomic nerves," the doctor replied.

"They're turning into plants?" Little W speculated.

"No, they're much more dangerous than plants," the doctor said kindly, glancing at little W, "they can walk, they eat, and they attack living people like animals." ”

"Do you know what virus this is?" Lei Yan sighed and asked.

"I don't know, bacteria, viruses, fungi," replied the doctor with a blank face.

"Maybe it's God's punishment for humanity?" David said.

"Perhaps," replied the doctor.

"The electronic clock on the wall," Lei Yan pointed to the electronic clock on the side of the giant screen and asked the doctor, "Why is the time on it countdown?" "At this moment, the time on the electronic clock has reached the countdown of thirty-one minutes and twenty-eight seconds.

The doctor didn't answer directly, and Eric hurriedly asked, "What about your parent organization?" What do they say? ”

"It's been two months since I lost contact," the doctor said with a blank face, "and it's just me. His answer silenced everyone, and at this moment, the alarms suddenly sounded from all sides, and more than a dozen red alarm lights in the hall also flashed, making the atmosphere suddenly tense, except for the doctor, everyone panicked, as if they were facing a great enemy.

"Doctor, what's going on?" Lei Yan asked the doctor.

"Countdown," the doctor replied after glancing at the digital clock that Lei Yan had just asked.

"What, what's the countdown?" Lei Yan asked with a slight stammer.

"Countdown to razing this place to the ground," the doctor replied.

"How can this be, let us out!" Eric yelled at the Doctor when he saw that the passage had fallen and the gate had fallen.

"Ah, the gate closes on its own, it's not under my control, it can't be opened," the doctor replied with a sigh, "none of us can get out......