Chapter 8 D Virus
Early in the morning, the fat man and I went out to bury my uncle and erect Zhu Dayong's tomb.
In 2013, at around 1 a.m. on January 3, Zhu Dayong died at the age of 38.
When I returned to the room with the fat man, we found that Guo Ya had disappeared, and the window of her room was wide open, and the cold wind was pouring straight in.
That's right this time, Guo Ya must have run from here, even if she went down the water pipe, why did she run away? This is her house, if you don't like to let us go, why run away? There are zombies outside, how can she survive? Could it be that there was something in the room that threatened her life? I thought about it, and then secretly glanced at Liu Miao, and couldn't help but feel cold. immediately dispelled this thought, no, no, when she came back, Liu Miao had just gotten up, and besides, she had nothing to do to harm Guo Ya.
Then why did Guo Ya do this?! Could it be that this room is haunted? There are already three dead people in this house, if Cao Li and Mao Yanliang are also counted, it is 5, is it because their grudges remain? There are even zombies in this world, and it's not uncommon to have some ghosts. Grass, stop.
The fat man and I decided to look for it, and although the chances were slim, we couldn't give up, and we had to figure out what was going on. Let Liu Miao stay in the room, I am holding a mace, the fat man is holding a knife, the uncle's guy style is also accepted by us, the bayonet is with me, and the gun is taken by the fat man.
Liu Miao was very worried, but she also knew that she couldn't stop us, she kissed me like a newlywed daughter-in-law, and then told me to go early and return early. The fat man who watched had goosebumps.
The two of us went downstairs and walked around the back, walked directly under the window of Guo Ya's house, and found that it was indeed a slipper, and it was Guo Ya's. I looked at the fat man and walked down the path. This is a narrow and deep alleyway, and the dead trees on the side are not swaying with the cold wind, which makes people shudder. I don't know why, but I always feel like someone is watching us, maybe I'm too sensitive. But I told the fat man anyway, and we looked around, but found nothing, and could only take it as my delusion.
I didn't find any zombies along the way, until I walked to the end, and it was a small red iron door, which seemed to be a little off the paint in some places. There was a man sitting on the ground, convulsing, with a broken wound on his neck, a large amount of blood staining his upper body, and his mouth was humming twice from time to time.
The fat man and I were about to go up to kill him, but when we got closer, this man's eyes were not crimson like the other zombies, but black. When he saw the two of us, he struggled even harder, and his mouth was bubbling with blood. It doesn't feel like a zombie is excited to see a human, but wants to express something.
"What do you want to say?" I asked tentatively. The man snorted for a long time and didn't speak, but more and more blood came out of his mouth. The fat man said: "This person can't do it, I'll be humanitarian!" So saying, the fat man lifted his knife and went forward. Then I reached out to stop him and said, "Wait a minute. ”
I saw that the man's face was bruised, and he seemed to have used enough strength, and finally hummed a word from his mouth: "Save ......", but he couldn't make a sound anymore, turned his head and fell down. I probed with my hand again, and this time it was completely dead, and it was estimated that it would change in a while, and I would leave.
As soon as I got out of the iron gate, I heard the fat man groan, and quickly retreated. It turned out that the man had turned into a zombie, and it grabbed the fat man's calf. "Lao Tzu let you go, you're still energetic!" The fat man cursed, and then slashed it with a wave of his hand.
went out to search for a while, but still found no trace of Guo Ya. I said to the fat man, "Forget it, go back!" ”
"Then what about Guo Ya?"
I said: "Since she intends to avoid us, it's useless to look for it, that's it, I'm not at ease to leave Liu Miao alone, go!" The fat man shrugged his shoulders indifferently, and the two of them retreated together.
The fat man was in front and I was behind, and we retreated while guarding the surroundings. When I came to the front of the building, I accidentally glanced at the grave, but I noticed that something was wrong, and hurriedly beckoned the fat man to run over. When I came closer, I found that Zhao Xiaotong's grave had been opened, the soil was scattered to the side, and the body was gone.
"What's going on?! Could it be that someone still stole the corpse?! The fat man was surprised.
I shook my head and said, "Maybe it's a zombie dug out, or maybe it's ......."
At this time, the fat man suddenly pressed my shoulder and whispered, "Look! ”
I looked back at the situation, and a small back figure was walking along the path in the distance, and a bad feeling came over me. I walked slowly, and then called softly, "Xiaotong? ”
The back did not move, and it was still walking in the other direction. I raised my voice a little more: "Xiaotong?!" The other party still did not react. This time, I had the courage to amplify my voice and said, "Xiaotong! Is that you? ”
Da, the back stopped, it seemed that I finally heard my voice, I saw that she had a reaction, and I was not sad or happy, but calmly continued to approach, until it was 2 meters away from the back.
"Xiaotong! How are you? This time my voice was heard more clearly, and the back in front of me turned sharply. She's Xiaotong, or so it used to be. And now, that lively and lovely Zhao Xiaotong has become unrecognizable, and the gradually accelerating metabolism has caused its body to decay slightly, and its clothes are covered with mud, although the overall image is not as clumsy as other zombies, but it is enough to make people distinguish.
I bit my lip, I hadn't thought about it before. As we all know, being directly or indirectly infected by zombies will become a member of the zombie army. But Xiaotong obviously didn't find any injuries before, and after staying here for one night, he was brutally poisoned, and it was impossible to be bitten. Will there really be zombies digging holes? I can't see it, this eighty percent is Xiaotong's own mutation.
I turned around and ran, and the fat man wanted to say something, so I dragged him back into the hallway, and then rushed back to the room with all my might. Liu Miao opened the door for us, and the two of us sat on the sofa panting, and rested for a while before we began to think about it.
"It seems that even if you are not attacked by zombies, humans will be infected and corpse mutation after accidental death." I summed it up.
The fat man snorted helplessly and said, "That means that if someone dies in the future, we will have to make up for it in the head, huh?" Grass the! He slapped his thigh, got up and went to the balcony to smoke.
Liu Miao inquired about what happened, and also knew that Xiaotong had mutated, and she was also very sad at this time, after all, she had the best relationship with Xiaotong. Liu Miao sat beside me, clasped her hands, and leaned on me.
That night, we packed up the belongings we were going to carry, and then the fat man asked me and Liu Miao to go to the guest bedroom, and he found a place to sleep by himself.
Afternoon of January 4, 2013.
Today, the three of us set off again, and the route was still according to the original plan, heading north to Puwang Road.
The fat man and I took our packed backpacks and woven bags downstairs and stuffed them all into the car. Upstairs, we left half of the food and almost all the living utensils, I thought that if Guo Ya came back, she could hide at home for a while, and as for more things, I was also powerless. I stood downstairs and looked up at the window of Guo Ya's house for the last time, and I will never forget what happened there in this life.
"Alas! You're waiting for the zombies to kiss you?! The fat man sat in the driver's seat and shouted. I gave him a middle finger and opened the door and got into the car.
Passing through the various zombies and broken and messy cars on the road, we soon arrived at Puwang Road. As expected, the road is relatively remote, so there are not many zombies and vehicles. The roads are lined with rows of bungalows, but they are not dense, and one of them is a wasteland, and the dead flowers and trees also set off the sadness of the last days.
After getting on this road, the fat man slowed down, after all, this is the road to the safety station, and with his previous experience, the fat man was afraid of rushing into the sudden zombie crowd with a foot of oil.
After about 2 kilometers of travel, suddenly a zombie rushed out of the roadside, which startled the three of us, because this 'zombie' really rushed out, running with his legs like a human, rushing straight to the road in front of us, and when he ran to the middle of the road, he stopped and turned around, waved his hands vigorously at us, and a cry of help came.
"Oh yes! It's a living person! The fat man scolded, he originally wanted to refuel and crash over, but he hurriedly stepped on the brakes. With a creak, the car stopped 2 meters away from the man.
The man walked over with his hands raised, and instead of approaching us directly, he stopped 1 meter away from the window and said hurriedly, "Don't hurt me!" I am human! Help me! ”
This man has a head on his head, short-sighted glasses on his face, and a tattered suit, and he probably escaped here from the city.
"Have you ever been scratched and bitten by a zombie?" The fat man asked as he opened the car door. At the same time I got out of the car.
"No, no!" The man said urgently, "I have been hiding in the innermost bungalow, and I have not come into contact with those things!" "Believe it or not," said the man, and began to undress again.
Liu Miao turned his head to look away, I walked over to check on him, after all, I can't believe it based on his words, if he is also infected and mutated, then bringing him is a danger.
The fat man also came down to be on guard. After some checking, I made sure he wasn't injured and asked him to get dressed and get into the car. The three of us were not very enthusiastic about him, and since the matter of Cao Li had not been eliminated in our hearts before, we must be wary of strangers.
A certain amount of communication is still necessary, and we chatted casually. The man's name is Wang Dong, 28 years old, who works as an office clerk in Boxin Building, Gufeng District. After the zombie broke out, he fled with everyone, but he was besieged by zombies together, and he drove out with 3 people, and went to this place to hide. Two of the three went out to look for food and didn't come back, and the other went crazy last night and ran out of the hideout, and Wang Dong didn't dare to chase him, so he was the only one left.
The vehicles passing by here in the past few days are not too few, Wang Dong and his previous companions often stop the car, but no one stopped at all, until today he was the only one, he decided to fight, with his body to stop the car, this stopped us.
During the conversation, I saw Wang Dong's eyes glancing at Liu Miao from time to time. She is indeed an eye-catching girl, plus my moisturization in the past two days, not to mention a different taste, if others just look, I am not so stingy.
Half an hour later, we arrived at the periphery of the garden area. The garden area as a whole has developed much faster than the Gufeng area, just like there are some bungalow wastelands around the Gufeng area, while the garden area is almost entirely high-rise buildings. But at this time, those high-rise buildings stood alone, and black smoke billowed from each building, and some even had a small collapse.
This scene reminds me of an American drama when the male protagonist enters a city alone. We're driving, and we're riding horses, and that guy is more stylish.
There is a bridge in front of the road, and you only really enter the garden area after passing it. The fat man began to slow down because we saw too many scrapped cars across the bridge, looking lifeless either with smoke or flashing lights.
Wang Dong already knew that we were going to the safety station, and he asked, "What should I do?" Let's get out of the car and walk over? ”
I shook my head, this is definitely not going to work, the danger factor is too great, but if the car is squeezed hard, it will obviously be very difficult. The fat man also said: "I can't go, if I run into a group of zombies after the past, we won't be enough to stuff our teeth." The garden has a population of more than 350,000 more than Gufeng, and now how many of them have become zombies. ”
I really admire fat people, I know a little bit about everything, anyway, no one in this world cares about truth or falsehood......
"That's it," I said, pointing to the fat man and Wang Dong, "park the car here, let's go over and have a look, and if there are survivors, we will go together, and if not, we will get those cars out of the way as much as possible, and make a way, and by the way, we can also loot and loot to see if there are any good things in the car." If the situation is not good, evacuate quickly. Liu Miao stayed in the car, closed the doors and windows, and guarded the surroundings. What do you think? ”
"Okay!" The fat man replied happily. Liu Miao was a little scared, but she also nodded. In the end, Wang Dong was not very happy, and said: "Brother Xiaoshi, can I also stay, I have bad legs and feet, and I am afraid that I will not be able to run if there is a situation...... And it's not safe for Miss Liu to be alone in the car, so I can stay and ......"
"Let's go!" The fat man dragged Wang Dong away. I closed the car door for Liu Miao and followed.
The three of us shuttled between the cars separately, which is actually a very test of people's ability to withstand and adapt to the process, because the gap between the vehicles is not large, if there are zombies hidden in a dead corner of a line of sight, and suddenly come out when we pass by, it is likely that someone will be injured, and the search car may also encounter zombies, so the danger factor is still quite large.
The fat man had a knife and a pistol, and I continued with a mace and a bayonet. And Wang Dong is holding a clothesstick in his hand, if he didn't want to go here, he might not even give him a weapon, it's good to have this.
I picked up a rock and smashed the window, and if the door was closed, even if it wasn't locked, I would open the window first, so that if there were zombies in the car, it would be able to defend itself to a certain extent. Smack! I smashed the window of the passenger seat of a Mercedes-Benz, and when I looked at it, there was only one body inside, which looked like it was dead, and I don't know if it would change, so be careful. I opened the car door lightly, and then searched around as fast as I could, but I didn't find anything useful, the omega on the corpse's hand was very attractive, I dragged it down and put it in my pocket, and when I saw that the corpse didn't move, I thought to myself if this was a 'car grave'. I folded my hands and bowed, and withdrew.
Then I looked for a while, the good news is that I didn't meet the zombies, the bad news is that there is basically nothing useful, it is estimated that the original owners of these cars are running blindly, and there is no preparation at all. We went back to our car to meet up and set up our belongings.
Wang Dong picked up eight packs of cigarettes, the previous market price ranged from 4.5 yuan to 17 yuan. I gave the fat man the omega that came by the way, and the boy happily threw away his piece, replaced it with this one, and then went to move the car as if he had been beaten with chicken blood.
The three of us worked together to clear a road in about half an hour, enough for our car to pass. I asked the fat man to drive first, and Wang Dong and I were outside, and if there was anything in the way when we drove through the road, we would move it. We have also considered changing the car before, but it will be very troublesome to change the car without a key, if you smash the glass and break the window, it will give the car an extra risk, and those with the door wide open, plugging in the key and waiting for you, it is not as good as the fat Mondeo!
The fat man answered, and drove on, and he had just passed in front of me, but then he had fallen back again. "What are you doing?!" I asked, "We'll get in the car again after we've said it's over, and let's go!" ”
The fat man poked his head out of the window and scolded: "Walk away your uncle's egg!" See for yourself! Hurry up and get in the car! ”
Stunned, I looked back impatiently...... Oh, my seventh uncle! I saw hundreds of zombies gathered together in a dense group, and then moved towards us at the same time. When did it come out, this amount is also too much, and this is the first time I have seen this kind of amount with my own eyes. I felt like a person in an American drama just now, but this time I encountered the same thing, and I was convinced!
I seemed to feel a strong rancid smell gushing like a spring, dizzy for a while, and then hurriedly pulled up the frightened Wang Dong turned around and ran, without stopping to get into the car, the fat man hung up the reverse gear and stepped on the accelerator, the car quickly fell backwards, although the zombie group seemed to speed up, but after all, we couldn't run the car, and soon we were out of danger. But he was forced to retreat to Gufeng District.
The fat man didn't retreat too far, and after returning to Gufeng District, he drove for a few minutes and stopped in front of a billiard hall. Everyone didn't get out of the car, and the fat man lit a cigarette and said, "This time it's good, but another intersection has been blocked, and it's in vain!" ”
"Come on, just find another way!" Then I said to Wang Dong: "The three of us are not familiar with these roads, do you know if there are any remote roads that can go to the garden area?" ”、
Wang Dong shook his head stupidly: "I'm just sitting in the office, how do you know where to go!" ”
"Let's go check it out!" The fat man pointed to the billiard hall. There should be a computer in there, I nodded in agreement, and everyone got out of the car, and then I came to start, and after the fat man's hall, the group slowly walked into the room.
This is a smaller billiard hall with a total of six tables. The whole thing is pretty clean, although it's also blood flying, at least there are no groups of zombies, but there are two people behind the bar who are noisy and lively, it seems that because the bar is too high, they can't climb out.
"Fatty, you solve these two, I'll go to the house over there and have a look." I said.
"Oh!" The fat man answered, and walked to the bar.
There are two doors in the innermost part of the billiard hall, which are far away, look at the door number, one is the toilet, and the other is estimated to be the office area. Liu Miao followed me, I asked her to wait next to me, and then I held the mace in my left hand, pulled out the bayonet with my right hand, and walked towards the toilet.
It was not dark yet, there was still a little light in the hall, but the toilet was pitch black, I felt for the switch after confirming that there was no danger at the door, but there was no response after pressing it, it should be a power outage. I had to take advantage of the faint light outside to investigate, but fortunately, the toilet was not deep, and there were only two private rooms for men and women.
I took the stick with my backhand, and if a zombie suddenly pounced, I could resist it. I posed, then lifted my foot and kicked open a toilet room, and without much force, the plastic door flickered and bounced back, but I could already see that there was nothing inside. Next came another one, I raised my foot again and kicked it away, this time I could see the 'goods', there was a 'person' sitting on the toilet, his head was drooping, motionless, and I didn't know whether he was dead or alive, but looking at the blood stains on his body, it was estimated that it was more than lucky.
I tentatively asked, "Dude, are you alive?" "There was no response, I was not surprised at all, I asked 3 times, 'he' didn't speak, I provoked his head with a bayonet, only to see that his face was rotten, a hole in his chest, and a bloody mass of things scattered out, east and west.
I'm sure this one is dead, no more ink, swing the bayonet at his head and stab him in the head, poof! The bayonet was inserted in an instant, and black and red blood spurted out down the blood trough, and I pulled it out casually, turned and left.
"There's a corpse in there, and it can't be changed anymore." I said when I came out. The fat man had already solved the zombies at the bar, and when he came over, I saw Wang Dong standing at the door of the billiard hall with a clothesstick, and it was estimated that the fat man asked him to watch, so he didn't ask more.
Then I was about to go through another door, the fat man and Liu Miao followed, I still asked Liu Miao to wait outside, and the fat man followed me in. I didn't find it when I opened the door, but I saw that there were three other doors inside, the place was not very big, and there was a bed in each room, which was probably the owner of the billiard hall himself. There were no signs of a fight in the room, no blood, and there was a computer in one of the rooms.
After determining the safety of the entire billiard hall, the fat man sat directly next to the computer and began to check, there was still electricity, and it seemed that only the power supply of the toilet was broken. In addition, the network is still not disconnected, which is really shit luck. I went out and took out the food from the car, and now it was almost dusk, and the world had the biggest belly, so I would eat first. This time, in addition to bringing snacks and bread, I also packed some prepared meals in a lunch box, and I was not afraid of stuffiness in winter, although it was cooler, it was much better than the potato chips.
I went to ask the fat man to eat first, he had to wait for a while, I had to come back and wait, but I was not idle, and Wang Dong carried a few couches in the waiting area to the door to block the door, even if there was a zombie invasion, you can resist it. Since the last Internet café incident, I know that ordinary doors and windows can't stop zombies, so I made this move. I was looking for something to seal the window, but I couldn't find a suitable one, and besides, the window was higher, and it would take a lot of effort for the zombies to break in.
At this time, the fat man came out, so we picked a case as a dining table, and Liu Miao distributed food to everyone. The fat man ate and told us what he had just found.
Puwang Road is blocked, we can only go north again, there is a road to go to the garden area above, but I don't know if there are zombies. But that's not the point, the fat man found a statement report from the National Research Institute, which publicized the specifics of the crisis.
Dracula virus, or D virus for short, is transmitted between organisms through the air and blood. This zombie crisis is caused by this virus. I also wondered why not just call it the T-virus, which would be more comfortable, after all, there are biochemical mysteries everywhere.
The origin of the virus is unknown, or the statement does not make it public, but it does explain how it spreads. The range of infection caused by airborne transmission is smaller, and the D virus survives in the air for a short time, and if it does not enter the host within an hour, it will directly lead to extinction, but even then the destructive power it brings is amazing, with incomplete statistics, nearly 30% of the total population in China is infected with the virus due to airborne transmission alone.
When the D virus enters the organism, it will quickly enter the blood vessels, taking humans as an example, when the living person is infected with the virus, the virus cells will engulf the body cells at a very fast speed, and the immune cells will compete with the D virus. There is no cure for D-virus infection in the bloodstream.
A large number of D viruses will continue to devour various cells in the host, the process is to degenerate the host, the metabolism of the human body continues to accelerate, but it still can't keep up with the speed of the virus, the skin can not withstand such a rapid metabolism, resulting in the skin whitening, ulceration and other symptoms, until all thoughts and consciousness are lost, and only one instinct is left, which is to eat.
To put it simply, some living people are infected by the D virus in the air, and after becoming zombies, they bite other humans, and more people become zombies because of blood infection, and then the world becomes like this bird.
The announcement also released some foreign situations, which are not very optimistic, and Africa is particularly difficult, but at this time, the big countries are no longer able to help, and they can't take care of it, who can care about those two words of thanks.
There are two points in the announcement that are not stated, one is that the dead are resurrected as zombies, and the other is that the weakness of zombies is only their heads. Although they were all raised, they didn't understand why, and I don't know if it was confidential or because of something else, but that's all the information I got anyway. After surviving a few days ago, we also know enough about this article, so we won't go into too much detail. By the way, I glanced at the publisher, and the signature was Dr. Stygian. Strange name.
We decided to stay here and leave early tomorrow morning, there are exactly three rooms, one for me and Liu Miao, and one for each of them. When I entered the room at night, I always felt weird in my heart, how uncomfortable I was, Liu Miao asked me if I was sick with concern, I shook my head, and then picked up the cigarette case and went out to smoke one.
I walked to the door, which was blocked by four or five sofas, and I sat on one of them, lit a cigarette, and quietly began to swallow the clouds.
The journey these days is really full of twists and turns, not to mention what happened at Guo Ya's house for the time being, let's just say let's go to the garden area, we can't go to the main road after finding a few main roads, and today I came to this road and met a bunch of zombies! What the hell! What if tomorrow we go further north and there are hordes of zombies? If you change to a Humvee, you can break through, but this is domestic, not an American drama, here you can't find a Humvee, black cars are everywhere, how to break in, the fat man's car is also no play.
Hey~ It just so happened that I was about to sigh, and a sudden sound came out on the side, and I immediately stood up and whispered to the black shadow next to me, "Who!" ”
"Me! Brother Shi, it's me! Wang Dong's face was revealed, and I could see that it was him, so I breathed a sigh of relief and sat back on the sofa. Why don't you sleep yet?! ”
"Hey, who sleeps soundly on this ghost day, and really becomes a dead pig? Hey, Brother Shi, can you get me one? ”
I casually threw the half pack of cigarettes in my pocket to Wang Dong, and he graciously took out one and smoked it, probably holding it for a few days. The two of us smoked cigarettes and took out all the things that happened in the past to talk about it, and I found that this Wang Dong didn't seem to have any bad brains, but I didn't dare to believe myself easily, after all, there was a lesson, and it was indispensable to guard against others.
"Brother Xiaoshi, I feel that I have something to tell you."
"Well, you name it"
Wang Dong took a puff of cigarette, and then said calmly: "Don't you feel uncomfortable? ”
"What? I don't understand. ”
"Although I just joined your small team, I felt very uncomfortable as soon as I came in, and we talked during the day, I remember that you were all classmates before, but how do I feel that there is always a strange atmosphere between the three of you?" After Wang Dong finished speaking, he held his head and shook it.
I frowned and said, "What nonsense are you talking about! ”
"Hehe, don't be angry," Wang Dong said: "It may be that I am more sensitive in the office all year round, and I can usually sense the slightest incoordination in my team before, no matter how long I have been in that team." I know you don't like to hear it, but I guess that's all I can tell you. ”
"That's enough," I said, standing up, "what you should be thinking about is how to save your life, not talking nonsense here!" ”
"Hmph" Wang Dong also stood up, and for a moment, I felt that I saw Wang Dong's eyes shining. He casually snuffed out the cigarette and said: "The world has changed, people will change even more, I have seen the horror of human nature, I believe you have also experienced it, whether I am talking nonsense or not, you think about it yourself!" If you don't like me, kill me! With that, he strode back to his room.
Oh my grass, this bastard's waist board is still hard! During the day, I didn't dare to hike into the car group, but now I would talk to me so strongly, it's really ...... Do people change......
In fact, the reason why I am angry is not that I am really angry with Wang Dong, I don't think he is provoking us. And among the three of us, there is indeed a discordant atmosphere, I don't know what they think, but since what happened to Guo Ya's family, several of us have a dark cloud on our heads.
Phew, I'm thinking about it again, the fat man is small, Liu Miao is my woman now, what am I still thinking about, sleep and sleep! When I returned to the room, I saw Liu Miao half-leaning on the edge of the bed waiting for me, and I couldn't help but feel warm, took off my coat and walked over.
The next morning, I woke up first, but I didn't move, Liu Miao was still pillowing my arm, sleeping soundly, I endured not moving. After more than half an hour, I couldn't hold it anymore and woke her up.
After cleaning up, when I came out, Wang Dong had already played billiards in the hall, I thought the fat man didn't get up, so I went over to play a game with him, neither of us was embarrassed by last night's conversation, and the ball played well, of course, in the end I won.
Just as we were playing the second set, the fat man shouted in the room, "Hey! Come here! ”