Chapter 1 Chapter 1
"Sister, there's nothing to eat in the refrigerator."
Mo Yu, who had been hungry all day, closed the refrigerator door and looked at the living room, the evening glow poured in through the closed window, and in the dim light, Mo Ci nested in the shadow of the sofa, covered with a thin blanket, his arms covering his face, and he didn't say a word.
"Sister!"
"There's nothing to eat."
The man on the couch was motionless.
Mo Yu sighed and continued to rummage in the kitchen looking for food to satisfy his hunger.
This is the fifth day of the virus outbreak, and all the network communication equipment around the world has been paralyzed, and the community where they live has been without water and electricity for more than 20 hours, and the water and food have been exhausted.
The clanging of bells in the kitchen woke up the sleeping people on the couch.
Mo Ci opened his eyes, nestled in the blanket and glanced at Mo Yu, who was rummaging through the cabinets in the kitchen, rubbed his sleepy eyes, and yawned lazily.
"Damn! If we don't have anything to eat, we're going to starve to death. Mo Yu grumbled angrily, angrily kicking away an empty jar at his feet.
Mo Ci sat up unhurriedly, grabbed his unkempt hair, pointed to the black leather bag hanging on the hanger and said, "There seems to be a pack of biscuits in my bag, you can look for it." ”
Like a hungry wolf, Mo Yu quickly ran to the hanger to take off the black leather bag, and poured out all the contents of the bag with a 'bang'. A small round mirror, a lipstick, a bottle of eye drops, a deflated wallet, a bunch of keys, and a pack of unsealed biscuits, only half a pack of biscuits, only five or six pieces.
"That's not enough to stuff your teeth." Mo Yu muttered as he stuffed a biscuit into his mouth and muttered, "Sister, if we continue like this, we will starve to death." ”
Mo Ci looked at her, her fair and delicate face did not carry any emotion, and she was not like a normal person.
"There is no way to go." After a moment, she said.
Mo Yu's jaw almost fell to the ground.
"Sister, your reflex arc is really long, it's all here, why aren't you in a hurry at all?"
"What's the use of being in a hurry?"
“……”
Mo Yu was silent.
Mo Ci was right, it was useless to be anxious, they had to calm down now and find a way to save themselves...... Well, it seems that the person who needs to calm down has always been him, and his sister has not been anxious since the outbreak of the virus, either sleeping, or standing by the window staring outside in a daze, which makes him wonder if she is ready to starve to death.
After all, it's better to starve to death than to be bitten or eaten by monsters out there, at least to keep a whole corpse.
"We have to get out." Mo Yu put the last biscuit in his mouth, clenching his fists, quite a bit of the consciousness and momentum of I don't go to hell who goes to hell.
Mo Ci stared at the biscuit packaging bag that was so empty that there was not even the scum left, and rolled her eyes, this kid didn't even leave the scum for her, and she hadn't eaten all day.
"It's okay to get out, but not now." She walked to the window with a calm face, stared at the sunset on the horizon, and said, "I'll leave tomorrow at noon." ”
Mo Yu was puzzled: "Why wait until tomorrow?" ”
"I've been watching the monsters outside, they like to hang out at night, and there are a few who hang out during the day, and when the sun is at its strongest, there are hardly any monsters."
"You mean, they're afraid of light?"
"It's not that I'm afraid, I think I don't like it."
The monster she was talking about was actually a mutation of humans.
Five days ago, an unknown virus spread around the world with lightning speed, and the source of infection is still uncertain, but it is certain that anyone who is scratched or bitten by a monster will be infected, and it will mutate in as long as 24 hours or as short as 4 or 5 hours, and become a hairless monster with sharp eagle claws and a mouth full of fangs.
Mo Ci has always been observing those monsters from a distance through the window, the monsters roughly look like this, after the mutation, the size is also several times larger than that of normal adults, and the human beings who have no power to restrain the chicken, in front of the huge monsters, basically have no power to fight back, either eaten or infected.
"Then we'll leave tomorrow when the sun is at its strongest." Mo Yu said.
Mo Ci's face was still ugly, she turned around, looked at her younger brother, who was only sixteen years old, but was already half a head taller than her, and said solemnly: "If we want to go, we need to face three problems. ”
"Which three?"
"One is transportation, we need a car. The second is the necessities of survival, food, water, medicine, self-defense tools, etc. are essential, of course, these things can be prepared slowly after we go out. Mo Ci paused for a few seconds, his good-looking brows furrowed, he sighed, and then continued: "Three, we need to plan where we are going next. ”
Three realistic problems were in front of him, which made Mo Yu feel a little depressed.
The first two questions are not a problem, City A is so big that they can always find cars, food and water, and what makes them disheartened is where they are going next, or where they can go.
The virus is global, and no place in this world should be absolutely safe, and it is safer to stay at home and find a way to live than to go out, but this is not a long-term solution.
Their parents are still in their hometown, and after the outbreak of the virus, they have lost contact with their parents for almost three days.
They should go back to their hometown, maybe their parents are still alive......
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At the beginning of May, the weather in the north was unpredictable, the temperature was high and low, the highest temperature reached 28 degrees Celsius, and it had been sunny for several days.
The light rain poured from morning until noon, and the sun they were expecting never emerged from the clouds, and the occasional monster or two ran through the streets, moving freely and unrestrained.
"To go or not to go?" Mo Yu asked her.
She frowned, stared at the street that was already empty at this time, hesitated for a moment, and said resolutely, "Go." ”
The two of them each carried a backpack and wore a peaked cap, and they had just gone out lightly, when the door of the neighbor's house on the opposite side suddenly opened, and a woman poked her head out and stared at them fixedly with a pair of empty eyes.
"You're leaving?" The woman asked.
"Yes."
"Can you take us with you?"
Mo Ci didn't rush to refuse, thought about it, and asked, "Do you have a car?" ”
"Yes, but I won't drive."
"I will."
The woman's pale and haggard face showed a hint of joy, and she breathed a sigh of relief and said, "You guys come in first, I'm going to pack up my things." ”
The two followed the woman into the house, and Mo Ci reminded, "Don't bring too many things." ”
The woman nodded, hurried into a room, and after a while, carrying a bag on her back, led a boy of about ten years old.
"My name is Wang Chunhua, and this is my son Xiaolu." The woman said.
Mo Ci briefly introduced himself and his brother, and then the four of them went down the stairs to the underground parking lot.
According to Mo Ci's observation in the past two days, there are fewer and fewer monsters on this street, and the car drove all the way out of the community, and he didn't even see a ghost.
Not far from the community, there is an underground supermarket, Mo Ci drove the car to the door of the supermarket and stopped, and asked Wang Chunhua in the back seat: "We have to go to the supermarket to replenish some food and water, do you want to come along?" ”
Wang Chunhua told his son to stay in the car obediently and followed them into the supermarket.
Due to the paralysis of the circuit, the underground is blackened, the five fingers are missing, and there are bursts of strange sounds from time to time.
Mo Ci took out two flashlights from his backpack, handed one to Mo Yu, and scanned the supermarket with the faint light, the supermarket was not big, and it was obvious that it had been swept away, and the only food left on the shelves was biscuits and a small amount of canned instant food.
"You go find water." She said to Mo Yu, who was following closely.
Mo Yu hugged his arms, craned his neck and looked around nervously, and said tremblingly, "I don't dare." ”
"Then you put these things on and I'll go find water."
The food was not sufficient, and there was a lot of bottled water. Mo Ci made two trips, carried two pieces of mineral water to the car, and then returned to the supermarket to get a few batteries for flashlights and a few lighters.
"Come here, there's a lot of canned luncheon meat here." Wang Chunhua's surprise voice suddenly sounded in the dark, the sound was very loud, and it echoed in the supermarket.
Mo Ci was startled by Wang Chunhua's shout, and the nerves in his whole body were tense.
"I'm here, come here." Wang Chunhua's shout rang out again.
Following the prestige, they saw the light of the flashlight, and could vaguely see the figure of Wang Chunhua, who was standing in front of a door, waving at them, which seemed to be a warehouse.
"Canned luncheon meat, I'll move two boxes." Mo Yu said that he was about to walk in the direction of the warehouse, but Mo Ci pulled him back.
She saw a black behemoth lying directly above the door of the warehouse, it was moving, it was alive!
"Sister......
"Don't talk." Mo Ci lowered his voice, pulled Mo Yu to hide behind a shelf, stretched out his finger and pointed at the behemoth lying on the wall, and whispered, "That thing is alive." ”
Mo Yu was frightened, "Let's go quickly." ”
"What about Wang Chunhua?"
"Leave her alone, it's important to escape."
“……”
Mo Ci also wanted to turn around and leave, but there was a ten-year-old boy waiting for his mother in the car......
"Sister, what are you waiting for? When the monster finds out, we're all done. Mo Yu sweated in a hurry.
"You go first."
"Are you crazy?"
"Let's go." Mo Ci's voice was not loud, but his tone was non-negotiable.
Mo Yu gritted his teeth, his heart was crossed, and he picked up his bag and slipped away.
Wang Chunhua was not small enough to fill the cans in his backpack, but the monster didn't seem to notice it......
Could it be that the monster is sleeping?
She dared to shine the flashlight in her hand at the big lump on the wall, and it was the first to shine on the monster's eyes, and the protruding eyeballs were not a little black, but cloudy lime gray, and she was shocked, and immediately turned off the flashlight. Only Wang Chunhua's flashlight was left in the entire supermarket, and it still emitted bright lights.
"I've got a lot of canned luncheon meat, why don't you fill some?" Wang Chunhua snorted again very suddenly, his voice was still so loud, and when he saw the monster on the wall move, Mo Ci's heart hung up.