Chapter 3: The Nature of Viruses
When the world has not yet come out of the haze of the meteorite disaster, misfortune follows. XR virus researchers have found that the virus is as lethal as 100%. Moreover, the pathogen has never been seen, and it is initially suspected that it is related to falling meteorites and rainfall in many places.
This virus is survivable, not tolerant of high temperatures, but extremely adaptable to low temperatures. If exposed to room temperature air, it will only survive for about 6 hours, but extreme cold can survive forever, at least for now.
Moreover, people who die as a result of this virus are able to be reborn as the living dead without reason and humanity after a few moments. It is extremely aggressive and can continue to transmit the parasitic Xr virus in its body through its bodily fluids. When this living dead bites someone else, it becomes infected, skipping the incubation period and becoming the living dead a moment later!
Even before this big news was announced, the Xr virus actually broke out at the same time......
The whole country, and indeed the world, fell into an even greater crisis in an instant. The true end times have come!
All patients with the Xr virus died one after another, and then reborn again. Before the people around them could react, they were infected by the bite one after another.
The catastrophe spreads around the world in a butterfly effect......
People chase each other and bite each other in the streets. The police and the army simply can't cope with it. The ammunition they carry simply does not stop this situation of people biting.
At this time, which was later called the "mutation moment", He Hao hid in a pharmacy in Zhonghe Town that was destroyed by a meteorite. Perhaps the owner of the pharmacy has been killed, as no one has set foot here since the first meteorite swarm fell.
He Hao, who had a broken arm, curled up in the corner after prying off the shackles with a scalpel, and kept stuffing painkillers into his mouth. Wearing a white coat on his body, he tried in vain to warm his cold body. Then he used a scalpel to cut off the black and purple flesh on the wound of the severed arm......
Every time the knife fell, he trembled, his steel teeth rattled, cold sweat dripped down his cheeks and fell on his blood-stained clothes, and he cursed resentfully, cursing the man who took his arm - Du Hu. He Hao vowed in his heart that he would break this man's body into ten thousand pieces and avenge the broken arm!
"Do I still have a chance?" He Hao asked himself in disbelief, he knew that the wound was infected, and he planned to light a fire to burn the wound on his arm, but he was afraid that the infected flesh would not be completely removed, if it was, it would not solve the problem at all. Because not only the arms, but even the entire internal organs can become inflamed and diseased.
Although the wound had been tightened with a belt, blood was still leaking outward. I may not survive for a few days......
Gradually, He Hao heard the screams of people coming from outside the house. There is also the sound of cars crashing. He pushed himself to his feet and looked out the window against the wall, and he saw people in the street chasing each other, biting and scratching. It seems that something has changed......
Suddenly, the door of the pharmacy was slammed open.
This made He Hao really startled, you must know that the handle of the handle in the door is a solid wooden stool leg, which is as thick as a wrist, and it should not be broken with one blow.
He Hao quietly slid down and peeked through the glass of the counter in the corner behind the counter.
From the back, it looks like a thin middle school student, less than 170 tall, with slender hands and feet. She wears a school uniform with "12 High School" printed on it. He Hao was puzzled why a teenager had so much power.
The student hunched over and gasped for breath, his neck writhing like a snake, as if searching for something.
When he turned around, He Hao was stunned by his appearance-
The young face was bloodless, with gray scars and bruises scattered on the cheeks and forehead. His eyes rolled and his face was hideous and terrifying. There was a large wound in his throat that looked like it had been bitten by a wild beast, and blood gushed out of it, staining the entire chest red.
The boy twitched his nose, as if he was sniffing something......
The Howard Center did feel scared. What a horrible situation is it for a man who should have died to have a strange-looking pestle in front of him......
He Hao swallowed dryly. The scalpel in his palm was clenched tighter......
"Uh-uh......" The young man seemed to smell the smell of blood on He Hao's body. He jumped up and pounced on him.
"!" He Hao, who was weak, couldn't help but scold. He stabbed the scalpel straight at the boy who pounced. The sharp blade cut through half of his face, but ended up stuck in the gap between his frontal bones.
The boy didn't stop biting at all, and after the two fought with their teeth and blades a few times, the scalpel was snapped!
He Hao knocked an elbow blow on the young man's temple, this blow would have been fainted for ordinary people, but the young man continued to bite without fear, He Hao lost an arm, unbalanced and lay down, the defense of his chest was wide open. The boy's bite on him was as ferocious as a jackal!
The painful He Hao hurriedly picked up a meteorite next to him and smashed it on the young man's head, with a muffled sound, the young man's head shook a little, He Hao grabbed this fleeting fighter, and the meteorite block in his hand hit it like pounding garlic.
"Didi - Discovery of fission replacement failure of double helix geneomes in higher organisms."
"Didi โ Activate the emergency treatment system."
"DiDi - Target Proliferation, Activation."
He Hao, who was frantically trying to survive, did not hear these inductive sounds. Until the meteorite in his hand shattered, revealing the fiery red metal eyes inside. It stood in the air, its fists the size of a combined fist. Like jellyfish, it has so many metal tentacles.
He Hao, who was stunned, looked at it with a blank expression. After it emitted some strange metallic sounds, a red glow shone through the metallic eyes, enveloping his severed arm, and then the meteorite around it floated into the air and shattered! It becomes a dense haze of metallic sand. Then they swarmed towards He Hao's broken arm.
He Hao, who was at a loss, raised his other arm to resist, but there was no pain, and even a warm feeling gradually came from the wound of the broken arm.
He opened his eyes and watched as the metal sand actually recast his severed armโ
The metal skeleton is indirectly connected to the glowing cardan axis, and in this way the arms and palms are formed.
The transparent membrane flows with a red glow, and the blood forms the blood veins.
Tens of thousands of micro pressure pumps are connected from end to end, layer upon layer to form the muscles.
The veins thread each miniature pump together and wrap it in a spiral around the arm and palm of the robotic hand. It is then coated with a metal fish scale net and finally wrapped in a thick metal exoskeleton.
He Hao couldn't believe what was happening in front of him, and just looked blankly at his new arm.
It is about the size of a real arm, slightly slender, but it is concave and convex where it should be. It is not an angular structure, and the overall color is a dark reddish blue. There are 10 pairs of valves in the place that sprawls to the shoulder. There are some many connection soft ports around the valves. There are 7 swivel openings arranged on the outside of the upper arm. It's just that it's currently closed in a swirl.
The forearm was unadorned, except that the 6-inch area in the middle of the forearm was completely transparent, and it could be seen that it was completely hollow inside, with only a blood-red ball of light bouncing inside, accompanied by a faint light.
The palm part of the hand is decent, except for a hole in the palm. Nearly pierced the palm of his hand......
Before He Hao could react, the floating metal eye suddenly shrank and catapulted into the hole between the palms, and fit perfectly.
Then, for a moment, his arm trembled violently as if it had been activated, and a cloud of blood mist erupted from the valve on his shoulder.
One of the seven swivel openings on the upper arm opened with a faint red glow......
"Oh my God......" He Hao muttered to himself as he stared into his metal eyes in the palm of his mechanical hand.
"Hey." Metal Eyes emitted a graceful electronic sound from there, as if it were coming from inside the eye, and it sounded as if a girl was hiding inside.
"Uh......" He Hao felt incredulous.
"I am your parasitic machine. You don't have to panic, I can feel your thoughts. I'm from a galaxy far away. The reason why you can say what you can understand is because of the system of sound resonance that translates it. The mechanical eye introduced itself.
He Hao was speechless for a while, and after a moment asked, "Why did you come here?" Now everything is in chaos outside, meteorites, light and rain, and why are humans biting each other? What the hell is going on? โ
"My hometown is suffering from an interstellar war. My name translates in your language as Raven. It is the flagship of a fleet of combat transport ships, and is blocked by the enemy while carrying out space migrations to transport combat resources. Our defense failed and was destroyed. Burst open from the leaping space. All the supplies flew from the spatial rift to your planet. โ
"What does this have to do with where I am now?" He Hao interjected.
"Listen to me, sirโthis is a shipment of combat genetic fluids, fluids that can resurrect dead soldiers and put them back into battle. Or a virus. The virus is able to activate dead nerves and cells. And give them more aggressiveness. โ
"It's infecting us humans, isn't it?"
The Raven, the mechanical eye, was silent for a moment and said, "Yes, you can understand that." He continued, "In order to avoid the aggressiveness of the corpse soldiers, the matching equipment is a war machine body, which not only enhances the combat capabilities of the corpse soldiers, but also restrains them by artificial intelligence until they are completely destroyed. โ
"I see...... If the rain of light is your virus that plunges the world into a zombie apocalypse, then the meteorite swarm is your war machine? Everything that has come to this world is your evil war resource? Our world has fallen victim to your wars? Right? He Hao questioned the raven.
"Yes." She doesn't shy away from this poignant question. "The part of the equipment that emerged from the rift in the Leap Space has been oxidized with calcium, so it resembles a meteorite. Maybe some of the armor will be scrapped because of this......"
After a moment of silence, Raven said, "1 liter of battle virus stock solution and 6 million tons of culture liquid are enough to infect 75% of the humans on your small planet and become zombies. "Her analysis has always been precise.
"Oh my God......" He Hao hid his face with one hand, he was desperate for the world.
"It is estimated that 20,000 pieces of various series of armor - G series, F series, and Z series - can prevent the catastrophe of this world without damage. If you humans can activate the wear, you will be able to save this catastrophe. Raven said disapprovingly.
"Fuck your shit!" He Hao slammed his mechanical arm against the wall, trying to stop her words, only to dent the entire wall. What a power it is.
The pharmacy, which had been bombarded by meteorites, was already in ruins. He Hao's punch happened to collapse a small part of the dangerous wall around the window. The sound of broken rubble and falling rubble alarmed the attention of the zombies outside, and there were about 6 or 7 of them. They are men, women, and children, and the only thing they have in common is their hollow, deadly eyes, and bloody mouths.
The zombie let out a low roar, and then rushed towards the pharmacy where He Hao was staying!
He Hao was frightened, he didn't expect to cause trouble. He fled to the other side of the pharmacy in panic, tore open the protective window with his mechanical arm, and then climbed out with one hand......
The zombies are just as swift and agile as they jump over the hurdle. Only this blood-stained, run-down pharmacy remains.
Blood-stained curtains dance in the wind. This may be the truest portrayal of the last days......