Chapter 1: Survivors Up
In 2030, human science and technology will reach an unprecedented peak.
In May 2031, country M successfully landed on Mars, taking the second major step in human exploration of the stars.
In 2035, the 'Red Ant' regeneration agent developed by Tiedun Company, with apes as the experimental target, successfully regenerated dying cells and made them more powerful. This technology is very secretive, and the outside media has spent a lot of manpower and money, and they can only detect the surface. However, Tiedun Company advertised that in the next three years, the red ant regeneration agent will be put into the market for medical use.
In March 2037, the red ant medicine will be put on the market, and many people will be blessed with a new life in their decayed bodies, stronger than healthy people. Of course, the cost of red ant medicine is very expensive, and a medicine costs 1 million US dollars, which is not available to ordinary people.
Just as people were basking in shock and joy, the crisis struck. A user of red ant regeneration potion in State B of country M had a lesion, he first fell into a coma, then had a fever all over his body, his skin ulcerated, and then after two hours of muscle spasm and convulsions, he woke up unconscious, murderous and bloodthirsty, biting at the sight of living creatures, disemboweling his belly, and eating human flesh raw. The police who arrived in time fired no results in a demonstration, and had no choice but to shoot him seven or eight times before he was killed.
If you think that's the end of it, you're wrong.
At that time, he had bitten and killed 10 people, and these people who were being treated in the hospital also had such symptoms. The hospital used many advanced methods to prevent the tragedy from happening. Towards the wee hours of the morning, these patients suddenly burst out and bite when they were looking for someone, like hungry demons from hell. Screaming in the hospital continued for more than an hour, and despite the mobilization of many armed forces, it was too late. This plague-like fear swept the entire planet in just half a year.
In September of the same year, the first month of the virus outbreak, the Global Security Alliance and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a crisis alert, which clearly stated that anyone who is scratched or bitten by an infected person will become infected within two hours.
In the sixth month of the crisis, the human government fell, and 80% of the world's 10 billion humans became cannibals without intelligence. They are tireless and continue to search for creatures with blood.
The only remaining Iron Shield scientist was unable to develop an antidote to the infectious disease of the Red Ant Agent, and the chief scientist, John, committed suicide by drinking bullets in the laboratory. The experiment was declared a failure, and the Iron Shield Company perished.
Just three months after the crisis, the global power grid collapsed, plunging the world in which humanity lives into boundless darkness.
"Ahh Exhaling a heavy breath, Zhang Zhao opened his hazy eyes and stretched the sore muscles of his body. Last night came a big customer, as a salesman, he and his colleague and friend Guo Rong socialized together, I don't know how much wine he drank, when he arrived at the hotel, he didn't care about washing and undressing, and fell straight on the bed. The list was negotiated, and the customer was also happy. But Guo Rong, who was not strong enough to drink, but was favored by customers, was also admitted to the hospital.
Last night, he settled the client, and then sent Guo Rong to the hospital for a hanging injection, which was also close to three o'clock in the morning. It is not unreasonable to say that the salesman is like a third escort. Smoking, staying up late, socializing, drinking. is less than thirty years old, and he has to make his body look like he is forty years old.
He went to take a shower, tidied up his clothes and was about to call Guo Rong, but his mobile phone rang. It's Guo Rong's call, this guy almost got drunk to death last night, and he got up so early today.
"Hey, pot, get up so early?" Zhang Zhao answered the phone, but yawned. It stands to reason that it is only 11 o'clock in the morning, and in terms of Guo Rong's state last night, he should sleep until the afternoon before waking up today.
"Fart, my head still hurts?" Guo Rong cursed on the phone, and his tone was dissatisfied: "I don't know what's going on, it's noisy outside early in the morning, which woke me up, and I still have the heart to sleep." Hurry up, come here. ”
Zhang Zhao hung up the phone and went out, this hotel chain is not far from the hospital, five minutes away. The sun was very mild today, Zhang Zhao hung his coat on his arm, held a cigarette in his hand, and shook his head helplessly as he looked at the congested streets. The streets near the hospital are very congested all day long, and the vehicles seem to gather at this point.
Upstairs, the careful Zhang Zhao found that there was a long trail of water in the corridor, as if the cleaner had just dragged it. The doctors and nurses who occasionally walked back and forth also seemed to have something wrong. Thinking of what Guo Rong said, could it be that something happened in the morning? Maybe it's because I've thought about it too much, in a place like a hospital, the angels in white are busy all day long, who doesn't have this expression. Is it possible to give you a smile all day long?
After completing the formalities, Zhang Zhaocai and Guo Rong, who was procrastinating, went out. "I won't drink so much when I kill Lao Tzu in the future, and I almost lost my life." Guo Rong opened his mouth to complain. This kid didn't drink well, who would have thought that yesterday's customer was interested in him and kept toasting him. For the sake of face, it is difficult for him to refuse. Zhang Zhao smiled: "So I tell you to learn something, you don't necessarily have to drink wine, you see which time I will get myself drunk." This is also true, after more than four years of doing business and countless entertainments, Zhang Zhao doesn't seem to have been drunk once. This is due to Zhang Zhao's father's education since he was a child, and when he goes out, no matter what the circumstances, he should not get drunk. One is to hurt the body, and the other is to prevent accidents, or someone is plotting against you.
Fortunately, Guo Rong was not very serious last night, and there was no such thing as a stomach perforation, otherwise he would have felt better. As soon as the two reached the top of the staircase, they heard screams at the end of the hallway, accompanied by several strange roars. "Damn, there was a fight." Guo Rong shouted.
At this point now, there are many patients in the hospital who are seeing and waiting, and there are many family members of patients, and when they hear Guo Rong shouting and fighting, they all look at that place and habitually walk over. It is the nature of the broad masses of people to love to watch the excitement, even if there is a brawl in a place like a hospital, I want to see it with my own eyes, and I can talk to my friends and colleagues in the future.
But things are not so simple, watching the lively people not go far, there are countless screams and curses in the corridor. Others ran back, looking terrified. Zhang Zhao felt that something was wrong, but out of human nature, he didn't run immediately, but stood at the top of the stairs with Guo Rong in a daze.
Someone fell, someone screamed. When Zhang Zhao and the others saw what was happening, it was too late to run. "Damn, what the hell." Even Zhang Zhao, who is usually Sven, couldn't help but burst into foul language. I saw a few people running out of the dark corridor covered in blood, with a frightened face, and they couldn't care about snot and tears hanging on their faces.
A chubby woman, bleeding from a huge wound on her chest, half-hung on her corset, couldn't get up after she ran a few steps and fell to the ground.
There was a bald man next to her, his left hand was still bandaged around his neck, it was estimated that it was his husband, and he just wanted to help the fat woman, but he was thrown to the ground by a patient covered in blood behind him. The patient didn't know what was going on, so he threw himself on the bald man, using his hands and feet together, and tore and bit him. In the blink of an eye, in two or three seconds, he forcibly bit off a large piece of meat from the bald man's neck and chewed it. The bald man opened his mouth and screamed miserably, and was drowned out by several bloody people who pounced on him later.
"Damn, Resident Evil." Even the stupidest young man in the world knows what is going on when he sees this truly terrible scene. Where will it be like the protagonist in an online zombie novel, it will take half a month and a month to know what happened. I don't even think about whether it's filming or something, can the blood of filming shoot you in the face? It's still lukewarm.
At the same time as Guo Rong shouted, the two of them ran downstairs, but they were too close to the scene, and there was still a zombie approaching them, and when they saw the figures of the two, they pounced violently. Zhang Zhao was hit with seven meat and eight vegetarians, and sat on the ground with his ass. Before he could react, he heard Guo Rong shouting. The zombie pounced on Guo Rong, biting his neck desperately with its bloody mouth open. Fortunately, Guo Rong's body size of nearly 1.8 meters, although he was drunk last night and was frightened by this incident, how could he not be sober. He grabbed the zombie's throat with his arm, preventing him from getting close to him.
Zhang Zhao's head was hot at this time, and he picked up the round trash can at the corner of the stairs, smashed the zombie's head twice, and then kicked him to the side. Guo Rong took the opportunity to get up and lie down, seeing the zombies upstairs disposing of the living, hearing the sound of fighting, he was poking his head out to look at the two, and the two of them took three steps and jumped down the stairs and ran out.
Guo Rong was glued with a lot of blood from the zombies, and the people downstairs were also puzzled when they saw the frightened expressions of the two. Others also heard the voices from upstairs and leaned in to take a look. The two of them don't care so much, it's important to run for their lives now. "Run, there are zombies running." Zhang Zhao tore open his throat and shouted the last sentence, his heart was beating faster at this time, who still had time to talk nonsense.
Some people walked suspiciously in the direction of the stairs, and some people were also frightened by their appearance, and subconsciously walked towards the door. The security guard downstairs may have heard the screams from upstairs and rushed in from outside. Seeing the appearance of the two, fighting and brawling, and spreading wild in Lao Tzu's territory, this is worth it. He was stretching his arms to stop them.
"you." Guo Rong picked up a punch the size of a sandbag and knocked one of the hateful-looking security guards to the ground. Oops, dare to hit someone, and the rest of the security guards caught Guo Rong and heard the screams of more people at the staircase. More people still looked at the staircase with a puzzled expression. Poof, a man rolled down the stairs, his internal organs tumbling outside, and he reached out to ask for help. But the next scene is the scene of the ants exploding the pot.
The zombie dragged its incomplete body and slowly stood up. Next, a few more zombies came down from the upper floor, standing on the wooden side, looking at everyone faintly.
"I'm going to go." I don't know where one of the security guards said a dialect, Zhang Zhao and the two took the opportunity to leave them behind and rush out the door.
Seeing such a scene, everyone's brains were just short-circuited for a second. A zombie opened its bloody mouth and let out a low voice, and the posture seemed to say: Brothers, up!
A horde of zombies rushed towards the crowd. At this time, there is no time to run for your life. Hundreds of people in the hall crowded out, and one door simply couldn't meet such a crowd at the same time. The people who rushed to the front ran out, but the people behind were pounced on by the zombies one by one. Some people were trampled on the ground, unable to get up, and were crushed and bitten by the zombies that came down casually.
The whole hospital was like purgatory, and the tide of loss spread in just half an hour.
Zombie viruses evolve, those who are bitten and scratched, or die instantly. It can be as short as three to five minutes, or as slow as an hour or two, and it will inevitably be transformed into the walking dead.