Chapter 21: I Am a Legend
The ruined city is overgrown with weeds, full of staggered vehicles, rusty cars are quietly oxidized and decomposed on the once lively streets.
On the asphalt road between the buildings, these former reinforced concrete are now ruined, desolate, and desolate.
Li Qiuling walked down such a street, a sense of apocalyptic desolation came to his face, and after the task prompt in his mind was over, he knew why the environment he was in now was like this.
Because the clearance scene he is in now turned out to be "I Am Legend", this movie, which had a deep impact on him, he vaguely remembered that in order to watch this movie, he ran two Internet cafes and borrowed a USB flash drive, just to be able to copy and save this movie, so that after he joined the work for three or four years, he could still see that this movie was lying in the USB flash drive, occupying three Gs of memory, because there was no compressed package at that time, and it was in MP4 format.
The film is about 2012, when humans were infected by an unknown virus, and New York became an empty city. Robert Nevill (Robert for short) is a scientist in the service of the military and a survivor with immunity to the virus. During the day, he takes his dog Sam to look for food on the streets, uses the radio to find survivors, and researches ways to cure the virus in the laboratory; At night, he can only hide in the house, because those who are infected with the virus and do not die, become "night demons", can only come out at night, lose their minds, and will attack everyone. One day, Sam also contracted the virus and died, leaving Robert Neville alone like never before. As he prepares to die with the Daredevils, another survivor, Anna, saves him. Anna believed there were survivors of the quarantine on the mountain, but the stubborn Robert Neville stuck to New York. Another night, the "Daredevil" attacked Robert Neville's residence, and by this time his research had been successful, but humanity could only survive until dawn.
The scene that impressed him the most about this movie was the scene where the male protagonist was plotted by the Night Demon, the kind of friendship between humans and dogs that helped each other, which made people cry, and the spirit of the male protagonist Robert, who did not hesitate to risk his life in order to study vaccines, is also a highlight of this film.
What Li Qiuling didn't expect was that the scene of his second clearance mission turned out to be this movie.
Walking on the streets of depressed New York, the wind blows through the broken billboards on both sides of the street, making a whirring sound.
Li Qiuling knew that the night demon was afraid of light, and it would not be a problem to walk on the streets of New York during the day, as long as he did not go to the dark places in the buildings on both sides of the street, he would not encounter the night demon.
But as he walked, he was thinking about the customs clearance mission this time.
There is no time limit on how to help Robert complete the development of the vaccine without being discovered, but there is a line of reminder behind the task bar on the bracelet that the task will be teleported back to the source of darkness immediately after the task is completed, otherwise, it will stay in this plot indefinitely.
This is a bit difficult, because the current New York City is in ruins, except for the male protagonist who is the night demon, then the character played by Li Qiuling is the promoter of the plot, or a bystander who wanders outside the plot.
"Spectators." Thinking of this word, Li Qiuling smiled bitterly, judging from the superficial meaning of the task, he can't be a bystander, judging from the first task he performed, the task of the space faction has never dealt with him as a bystander, and the first task is to treat him as a character in the plot, so that he can be by the protagonist's side, at least under the halo of the protagonist, as long as he is not reckless, his life can still be guaranteed.
But this task, Li Qiuling felt a lot of pressure, first he couldn't contact Robert, and he couldn't let him discover himself, and he had to promote the development of the plot, otherwise he would stay in the plot of this movie indefinitely.
Yes, after watching this movie, he is still very familiar with the plot, this movie has two endings, ending 1, Robert developed a vaccine, which has also been confirmed in the female Daredevil. In Ending 2, after the Daredevil breached the residence, Robert gave Anna the results of his research, the antivenom, and killed the Daredevil leader with a grenade.
If the movie he is in now ends with the first ending, then he can even find a hiding place in New York and wait for the movie to end, and if he comes to the end of ending 2, then he will have to appear after the Daredevil attacks Robert's residence and secretly help Robert escape, otherwise, he will definitely fail the mission and be obliterated by space.
Now he has half the chance that he can complete the task without much effort.
Thinking of gambling, Li Qiuling sighed helplessly, if he pinned his hopes on luck, then if he bet right, he will live, and if he bets wrong, he will die, so what is the point of being selected to come to this space, he has never believed in luck.
Because he knew that it was an ethereal thing, and he didn't believe it in the real world, and here, he didn't believe it even more.
He feels that in everything he does, he must try his best to work hard and strive for it, which is in line with his way of doing things.
He looked down at the bracelet, now that he had been teleported to the first 10 minutes of the movie, it was daylight, and Robert was supposed to take his pet and search the streets of New York City for supplies.
And he must find a safe hiding place now, or wait until the evening, when the night demon comes out to feed, he will surely die.
I'm the night demon of the saga, not like the zombies in the last movie, they are not only powerful, but also fast, and they seem to have evolved into a tribe, with leaders and feelings.
If you encounter them and you can't fight hard, then I'm afraid you won't have a chance to escape.
Fortunately, Li Hill remembers that the night demon here is afraid of sunlight and ultraviolet rays.
Without further ado, plan ahead.
Look at the time, it's nine o'clock in the morning, and his first task now is to find a weapon, knife or gun, if you can find a gun, it is the best, so that it can be used for self-defense.
Americans don't ban guns, and there may be guns in street stores, but in the early days of the virus outbreak, the guns in street stores will most likely be looted, and now if you go to the store, it is estimated that it is impossible to find them.
But there is another place, where Li Hill estimates that there may be guns, and it is well preserved, so it should not be looted.
That's the gun depot of the police department.