Chapter 1 Beginning
Boom... Call... Boom... Call... Boom... call
The only sound of breathing and heartbeat seemed to be left in the silent room.
In the room, there was a man lying motionless, the rise and fall of his chest showed that he was still alive, his name was Li Ru, he was just an ordinary college student, before the disaster broke out, he was still shopping, but he didn't expect the sudden shock, he was caught off guard, recalling the tragedy he saw in front of him at the time, he couldn't help but want to vomit, people eat people This kind of thing has only been heard, but seeing this kind of thing eating alive with his own eyes is unacceptable, whether it is physical or psychological.
"What's wrong with this world, is it really the end of the world?" Li Ru lay on the bed and said to himself, his mood was a little low, he had been hiding here alone for almost a month, and he was a little mentally broken, from the initial terrible fear, to the loneliness that penetrated deep into the bone marrow now, it was maddening, and at first he could rely on a long sleep to relieve it, and he couldn't sleep when he wanted to.
Cuckoo...
Li Ru's stomach screamed at this time, and the hunger pang temporarily relieved the mental pain.
Rubbing his shriveled belly, Li Ru got up and flipped through it, the food he worked hard to collect last week was only two pieces of shredded bread and half a bottle of mineral water, and he would be hungry if he didn't go out to find something to eat, saying that he had been in this room for almost a month, and there was no shadow of the rescue team, he initially tried to leave here, but he was always blocked back, Li Ru had a bad premonition, but he still believed that the government would definitely deal with it, as long as he persisted.
Picking up a fire axe, Li Ru cautiously opened the door, although he had confirmed that the surroundings were basically safe, but Li Ru was still not at ease every time he opened the door, he was a cautious person, especially this kind of life and death matters, Li Ru can be said to be careful to the extreme, as long as he arrived at a place where the field of vision was not wide, his movements would slow down, even if it was just a corner, he had to lie down and stick his head out a little bit to see the situation, because he knew that any negligence might not see the sun tomorrow.
In this way, step by step, Li Ru left the room, and carefully checked that the obstacles he set up at the entrance of the building were not abnormal, and then he breathed a sigh of relief, he is currently on the sixth floor, and he has confirmed that there is no danger in the collection process above the sixth floor this month, as long as there are no monsters coming up under the floor, safety can still be guaranteed, but now the materials on the upper floors have been exhausted, and today you must go downstairs over the obstacles to collect some materials, food first, tools second.
Li Ru's building is a commercial floor below the sixth floor, especially the third floor belongs to the food sales area, where there is a lot of food, before he wanted to go there to get some food supplements, but considering the danger, and the basic supplies were enough at that time, he dispelled this idea, and now he has no choice but to explore the lower area.
Li Ru was terrified from the sixth floor to the third floor, and every floor would be carefully searched to confirm that there were no monsters before continuing to the lower floor, and there was not a single monster all the way, why did those ghost things disappear? Could it be that they are moving, so they are not hiding, right?
With doubts, Li Ru clenched the axe in his hand, and bravely walked towards a few corners beyond his vision, some things cannot be escaped, if you want to ensure safety, you can only risk to eliminate the danger, fortunately after some inspection this time, there is finally no danger, although the dried blood stains and stumps that can be seen everywhere on the ground are a little infiltrating, but Li Ru can basically be sure that this floor is safe, so he began to collect food.
Since it has been a while since the catastrophe, such as fruits and meat have gone bad, Li Ru can only take some dry goods and drinking water, and looking at the shelves full of them, it should be enough to support himself for a month, because his stomach is really hungry, so he ate on the spot, and in less than five minutes, Li Ru touched his bulging belly with satisfaction, it was good to be alive.
Li Ru picked out some high-calorie and easy-to-digest food and was about to leave after packing, but suddenly remembered that there seemed to be a refrigerated area on this floor, where the things in the freezer might not be bad, such as jerky or the like, if that's the case, you can take some yourself, anyway, there is a guy who cooks upstairs, you can improve the food, I haven't eaten anything for cooking for a long time, and I have to vomit when I eat dry food.
According to his previous memories, Li Ru quickly found the refrigerated area, where many freezers were neatly arranged and didn't seem to have been touched much.
Li Ru walked over and opened the first freezer, as soon as he opened it, a rancid smell came to his face, and he almost vomited out the overnight meal, but fortunately, there was nothing in his stomach, and he didn't need to look at it anymore, the things inside must have been broken, Li Ru got up and walked to the next freezer, in fact, he himself knew that the probability of the things in these freezers being saved was very low, after all, the power outage had been almost a week, but the luck of the psychology drove him to take another look, but the result was nothing.
In desperation, he can only go back to his house and return along the same road, Li Ru has no intention of continuing to go downstairs, he still has great hopes for the government's rescue, in this case, maybe the army will come to clean up, as long as he insists, it is not a last resort, and it is still his basic strategy to stick to the help.
Then Li Ru moved like an ant, little by little to move the food to the room on the sixth floor, the room is not big, but it is the closest to the obstacle he set up between the fifth and sixth floors, once the obstacle is damaged, he can also be aware of it as soon as possible, otherwise he would have moved to a comfortable home on the upper floor, and there is no way to nest here, and he has to lay on the floor.
Towards the end of the evening, Li Ru was busy, not only emptied the materials on the three floors, but also took local materials, and also set up obstacles between the second and third floors, and then returned to his nest satisfied.
Due to the amount of exercise, Li Ru went to the bathroom of the room on the fourth floor to take a bath, although the disaster happened for almost a month, the power supply in this building was cut off, but the water supply was never broken, Li Ru will take a bath every day, and sometimes go to the room with a bathtub to take a bath, every day at this time is the happiest time for Li Ru.
Moments of happiness are always short-lived, leaving the bathroom and returning to their own nest, only to sit alone on the bed, with only the piles of food next to the bed to give me a little comfort.
It's been twenty-eight days! Looking at the orthography carved by himself on the wall, Li Ru sighed.
Li Ru didn't know how long he could last, he wasn't worried that he would starve to death, he was afraid that he would go crazy before starving to death, he had never thought about a person's world before, and now he realized that every night, this is like hellish loneliness, and insomnia has become commonplace.
Bell bell bell
With the alarm clock ringing, Li Ru immediately got up and dressed, last night I had insomnia again, I stayed up until midnight to close my eyes, it is estimated that I didn't sleep enough for four hours, but I still need to do my daily work, I washed up briefly, and went to the warehouse to get tools. It is said that it is a warehouse, in fact, it is a small room on the first floor on the seventh floor, because of the good lighting and ventilation, it is used to stack materials other than food, and all the things that Li Ru thinks are useful will be piled up here, from boxes and tents to toothpaste and toothbrushes, all of which are classified and low.
Li Ru opened the warehouse door and came out with a backpack on his back, and some things that were often used were concentrated in this bag for easy access.
Carrying a backpack, Li Ru climbed to the top floor of the rooftop, and found a place with a wide field of vision at random, Li Ru put down the backpack and took out a pair of binoculars, a pen and a light blue hard-shell notebook from it, this is the work that Li Ru arranges for himself every day, to pass the time every day, through the telescope, Li Ru observes everything around him every day, especially the movements of monsters, and will record it with a pen whenever he finds anything. This time, it's just that the object has been replaced by a monster that is not a human or a ghost.,There's still something to gain from observing during this time.。
At first, Li Ru thought that these monsters were just like the zombies in the movie, just a group of corpses that ate people everywhere, but from the observations, they were more like another creature than corpses.
Compared with the zombies in the impression, they are not fearless, Li Ru found that they have obvious phototaxis, for strong sunlight, they will hide in the shadows, although they have the appearance of a human being, they usually sway slowly like ordinary people walking, but as soon as there is a big movement, they will be like stimulants, moving towards the source of the sound at great speed, the most surprising thing for Li Ru is that they will not run like people in this process, but move quickly on all fours like cheetahs, not so much that they are like zombies, It would be more appropriate to say that they are more like beasts.
Li Ru found that they only seem to be interested in living things, not only attacking people, occasionally cats and dogs and other animals will also be attacked, remember that last time a cat passed by, barked a few times, and the monsters in this area became a mess of porridge, a cat was chased by the monsters, and in the end, Li Ru didn't know if the cat ran away, a little regretful.
Li Ru doesn't know if the monsters have vision, and there is no way to verify it, but it is certain that their hearing is very good, and their sense of smell should not be bad, as can be seen from the fact that they do not eat the carrion on the ground, and some of the corpses on the ground are very intact, but they did not become monsters, and finally only turned into a pile of carrion, Li Ru speculated that these monsters may only be infected by living organisms, once the person dies first, then it is really dead, and the speed of decay of the infected corpse has become abnormally slow. Many of the bodies were not much decomposed.
Li Ru does not know whether the source of infection is bacteria, viruses, or parasites, etc., judging from this large-scale outbreak, this transmission route is mostly air or water source, and the possibility of airborne transmission is very high, but Li Ru is not worried that he will be infected, and he can live until now, indicating that he should have a certain degree of resistance.
The metabolism of the monsters seems to be very slow, Li Ru came to the conclusion from observing a monster trapped in a Land Rover on the highway not far from the building, it should have been infected before its death, hiding in the cab, and finally mutated but didn't know how to get out of the door, so it could only stay inside, and the calculation time was almost a month, but it was still alive, which can only be explained by the slow metabolism, Li Ru would not believe in the possibility of living forever without eating.
There is another point that makes Li Ru suspect that these monsters are not zombies, because they will be like humans at night and out of the day, and at night by the moonlight, Li Ru can see them lying in the corner or on the side of the road, nesting or leaning motionless, although it is not clear whether they are sleeping, but most of them are resting, maybe it is the habit after mutation, or it may be caused by the temperature at night is too low and the body function is limited, which needs to be further verified later.
In fact, these are not what Li Ru wants to see the most, if you want to say what he wants to see most now, it is of course the national rescue team, and there is a colorful flag on the rooftop that he made with a long pole and bed sheets. The second is people, in addition to themselves, living people, every day they will have such hope, but every day is disappointed, is there really a living person in this vicinity? There will be a month to go on such a day, and my plan is to stay here for two months, and if there is no rescue team to come, I can only find another way.
It wasn't until the sun was about to set that Li Ru finished today's observation and recording work, and went downstairs to check the situation of the obstacles set up yesterday, and confirmed that there was no abnormality before taking a bath and sleeping with peace of mind, which is Li Ru's daily routine.