A monster's roar and blow woke up the sleeping Bai Ying, and after a while, she heard the sound of movement in the doorway, she didn't dare to make a sound, just sat quietly on the sofa and listened, and soon the sound disappeared.

The sky outside the window was already dawning, and looking at her sleeping son next to her, her heart was full of pity and confusion. Children are always very snooze, and it is not easy to wake up after falling asleep, not to mention that yesterday day was frightened, so they fell asleep after eating at night, there was a single sofa in the hardware store, and Bai Ying found a simple folding bed sold in the hardware store, and the little guy is now sleeping on it.

Bai Ying, who had been sitting on the sofa and sleeping all night, got up and moved her stiff body, and when she saw the food piled up next to her, she remembered yesterday's situation, after her husband rushed here to protect herself and her children, she watched her husband being pounced on by the monster next to him next to the store door but couldn't do anything, although he didn't see the situation with his own eyes, but his angry and desperate shouts, fighting and the roars of those monsters kept coming into her ears, until the terrible sound of tearing and swallowing came, She covered her son's ears in pain and hid in the corner of the store, and soon the terrible sound suddenly disappeared, but there were still footsteps at the door, she knew that those monsters were still around, and then after a long time, the outside of the store finally quieted, and she forced herself to rummage in the store, but unfortunately except for candles, lighters, etc., she did not find any food at all.

When night fell, she lit a candle and prepared a sleeping place for her son, so she hid in the corner with her son in her arms, she was afraid that the light of the candle would attract monsters, but if there was no light, she felt that she would soon collapse, so although she blocked the light, she did not extinguish the candle, her son was young, hungry and thirsty, but he only talked to himself a few times, did not cry, just quietly hid in his arms. But he didn't have any choice, so he had to go to the door to check the situation, and the son who was following him said that he was very hungry at this time, and at that time, looking at his son's pitiful smiling face, his heart felt like he had been cut by a knife.

Thinking of this, Bai Ying subconsciously glanced at the door again, recalling the face that rushed to the door, she was frightened at the time, but her son recognized it as her husband's face at the first time.

The faint light did not obscure the terrible sight, and it looked even more hideous against the background of the night. But it was the same face that had smiled at him countless times, and those resolute and bright eyes had looked at his family warmly countless times, but now it was covered with huge wounds, and one eye burst out, leaving only an open flesh hole.

Bai Ying understood that her husband was no longer there, and he had become a monster, and her tears couldn't stop flowing when she thought of this.

When his mother and mother were most helpless and painful, like a dream, some food and water appeared in the door inexplicably, thinking of this Bai Ying's heart and faint expectation, could it be that Qingqiang was not dead, or that he was still 。。。。。

At this time, there was a faint sound of a car starting outside, Bai Ying stood up suddenly, walked a few steps towards the door, and then she stopped, she remembered her conjecture, and there was a faint hope in her heart, she had to wait a little longer to see if there would really be a miracle. So she started a new search in the store, looking for something that could be used.

Meng Qingqiang drove his truck to a newsstand at the end of the road, hoping to find some clues about the disaster.

With the advent of mobile phones, the Internet, television and other media methods, people are becoming more and more unfamiliar with the words written on paper, and most people may no longer get information from newspapers or magazines for a long time. It cannot be denied that these electronic equipment as the carrier of information dissemination, cheap, fast, large amount of information, but the entity as the carrier of the text pattern has a huge advantage in the preservation of conditions and time, electronic products dependence on electricity and electronic components in the face of time fragility, all make them useless in special circumstances, and mural paper text can be inherited in a relatively simple natural environment for thousands of years.

Meng Qingqiang rummaged through the news in the newspaper, but most of them were about celebrity gossip, or which country withdrew from what agreement, started nuclear research, which country and where launched the experiment of a new weapon, etc., and finally saw a news about a new virus being discovered and causing a sensation, Meng Qingqiang read it, and faintly felt that this might be related to the disaster, after all, the relationship between virus infection and mutation is not unfamiliar to people.

According to the report, a strange virus suddenly appeared in the human body and nature half a year ago, without any precursor, doctors around the world have discovered this new virus, this virus is peculiar in that the medical community has not recorded anything about it before, as if it suddenly emerged from the void, and the spread of this virus is similar to AIDS, and it cannot be transmitted through air and contact, but through contact with body fluids, and some people are naturally immune to it, even if the body fluids are exchanged, they will not be infected. The virus currently causes mild symptoms, most notably a slight congestion of blood vessels in the eyes, but the possibility of mutation cannot be ruled out because of its high activity. The discovery of the virus caused a sensation all over the world in a short time.

Seeing this, Meng Qingqiang vaguely understood the origin of these corpses, obviously this virus suddenly mutated ferociously like their sudden appearance, and at the same time understood why some people who did not mutate at the beginning, after being killed, the lucky corpses were saved, but later mutated again, because after the person's immune system failed, the virus was able to invade, just like the current self and the "lame" who circled.

After analysis, scientists have come to a conclusion that this virus does not appear out of thin air but is mutated by one or more of the virus's siblings such as T2-like bacteriophages, which are different from pathogenic viruses, they are widely present in nature and in the human body, not only harmless but even beneficial to the human body. In view of this conclusion, the scientific community named this virus T-alpha (α), but the cause of the phage mutation is different, some believe that it is caused by scientific experiments, some believe that it is caused by changes in the natural environment, cosmic ray irradiation, the earth's own radioactivity changes, etc., but these reasons cannot explain the occurrence of the synchronic phenomenon of phage mutation, so this has also become a mystery.

Meng Qingqiang, who put down the newspaper, scratched his head, he had some clues about the cause of the disaster, but the root cause was still foggy, these things were a little profound for him who was just an ordinary person before, and at the same time it did not help the current situation, pressing his mind, he ransacked the newsstand again, magazines, novels, maps, etc., especially comics, were all loaded into the carriage, and then got on the car and returned.

On the way back, he ransacked several convenience stores and water stations, loaded a large amount of food, drinking water, batteries, toiletries, etc. into the carriage, and rushed back to the hardware store.

Bai Ying, who was preparing food for her son, suddenly noticed that the light of dusk sent a black shadow into the house, and she hurriedly covered her son's mouth in a hurry.

"Wife"

A hoarse almost inaudible call came from outside the door, Bai Ying's eyes were instantly dull, and after a while, she got up and walked slowly to the door, and at a glance saw a figure standing outside the door, a man in a black tracksuit stood outside the door, with a mask of a little white rabbit on his face.

"It's me, wife, I'm back"

The rough voice sounded again, although the voice was very unfamiliar, but the familiar tone made Bai Ying cover her mouth, tears blurred her eyes, and then the young son also quietly walked over, took his mother's trembling hand, and a pair of clear big eyes were full of confusion and curiosity.

Bai Ying put down her hand, took a deep breath, and asked tremblingly, "Is it you?" Qingqiang"

"It's me, I'm back"

"You, you, a human or a monster?"

Hearing this question, Meng Qingqiang, who was standing outside the door, was silent, he took out a cigarette, lit it and took a deep breath.

"It's a monster...

"Huh?" Bai Ying exclaimed, then saw the familiar smoking posture, and lowered her head silently, all kinds of pictures from the past emerged from her mind, and finally froze on the figure who yelled and desperately waved the wooden stick, after a while, she raised her head slowly and firmly as if she had made up her mind, and smiled at the people outside the door

"It's okay, just come back"

The same smile in different worlds bloomed instantly, as if a ray of sunshine broke through the darkness and melted the broken heart, and tears gently dripped from under the mask.

A childish voice also sounded at this time.

"Hello Dad, welcome home"