I stood on the roof of the outpost and stared blankly at the scenery in front of me: everything was the same as yesterday, the trees were still yesterday's, the river was still yesterday's, the highway was still yesterday's; Even the clouds in the sky seem to be the same as yesterday's. Still not a person, not a car. I picked up my rifle and searched back and forth through the scope of the gun, and then I went downstairs in despair. The stairs are steep, so be careful when going down. I pressed some water out of the pressurized well and washed my face; The cold well water cleared my chaotic mind a little. My stomach crowed at the right time, and there were boxes of compressed biscuits and cans stacked in the corner, but I didn't bother to take them, and when you ate the same thing for a month, you wouldn't even have the courage to look at it. I was really hungry, so I sighed helplessly, walked up and took a pack of biscuits, sat on the stairs, and ate silently!

There are more than 50 boxes in the corner! Except for compressed biscuits and cans, everything else is guns and ammunition. There are four types of long guns, I'm not a military fan, I only know the Type 95 rifle and the Type 95 light machine gun; Both guns were not very many, there were 5 Type 95 rifles and even fewer Type 95 light machine guns, only two. I don't know the other two, one of which is very similar to the Type 95 rifle, except that it is completely smaller, and there is a big silencer at the muzzle! This gun has the most, there are ten. The last one was only one, the most slender of all guns, with a telescope on it that allowed you to see far away, and this was probably the sniper rifle, which I used every time I stood on the roof of a building to search for the outside world. The rest is a pistol, twenty, exactly the same model, all with silencers, I don't understand why with so many silencers, is it because there are too many silencers and there is no place to put them? There are also bullets, some in magazines and some in bulk. I remember that at the beginning, I was enthusiastically fiddling with it for several days, and now I am tired of playing with these guns! What time is it, I've long forgotten it! Time has lost its meaning to me at this point. After so many days, how can there be no one! The only explanation can only be that the flu is still not over, but the flu should have lessened! I remember that a few days ago, the CDC said that a breakthrough has been made in the development of vaccines, and the next step is to start mass production. But why is there no movement at all until now, is the newly produced vaccine not effective? Or is it because there are so many people with the flu that there are no workers to produce at all!

I pondered that what had happened these days was to relive it in my head: just two months ago, I was a junior in high school, and I was in the final preparations for the college entrance examination in a closed school, like all my classmates. At this time, there was a sudden outbreak of flu in the United States, and its spread was so fast that people did not even have time to be surprised when they were infected. In just four days, the world's most powerful country collapsed.

The World Health Organization sent a team of experts at the first time, and soon came up with the characteristics of this flu: airborne, infection rate of 90%, and general flu symptoms such as fever, cough, and weakness after being infected; Fortunately, this flu is very mild, and there have been no cases of death directly from the flu. At that time, it was the most critical moment before the college entrance examination, and the teacher repeatedly warned us not to delay the most important exam in our lives because of what happened on the other side of the world! Of course, we understand this simple truth, and continue to devote ourselves to intense revision.

But then things developed unexpectedly, Canada, Europe, South America, Australia, Africa, Japan, Russia! One country or region after another contracted the flu and then collapsed. This flu is like a giant octopus, entrenched in the United States, waving its tentacles wildly to the world, and no one is spared everywhere it goes.

Fortunately, China is one of the farthest countries from the United States, and there is still some time to prepare. The government took decisive action: the borders were closed indefinitely, and planes, ships, vehicles, and pedestrians were not allowed to enter or leave, otherwise they would all be shot on the spot; Internally, a full mobilization was carried out, card checks were set up everywhere, and pharmaceutical factories stepped up the production of various disinfectants. The measures are far stricter than SARS back then.

Panic began to spread, in this era of developed networks, there are no secrets in the world, although there were no cases of infection in China at that time, everyone could see that it was a matter of time. So everyone is starting to prepare for the coming pandemic: there are snapping up everywhere; Some people try to close themselves off from the outside world; Others took to the streets and began to loot shops; Society quickly became a mess, and there was little to keep order.

The virus finally drifted into China with the air, and then the number of patients increased exponentially and could not be contained. All the previous scenes of the collapse of the state have emerged: factories have been shut down, schools have been attended, transportation has been paralyzed, and the supply of thermal coal has plummeted, directly causing widespread power and water outages.

I belong to the lucky 10%, and the people around me have a fever and cough and are weak, but I don't have anything to do. But before he could rejoice, he was forcibly drafted into the army and became a porter who worked seventeen or eighteen hours a day. In the words of the national slogan: take care of the 90% while guaranteeing the minimum functioning of the country!

The staircase faces the main door. Looking at the gate, the thought swirled in my mind like a stubborn fly again: how nice it would be to be able to get out and walk!

I shook my head vigorously, as if this would drive away the fatal thought: before leaving, the company commander gave me a death order, no matter what, not to step out of the outpost, otherwise I would be punished as a deserter; The last deserter was shot directly.

I remembered the day I parted with the company commander again: it was about a month ago, we had been delivering food to the city of L according to the plan, but suddenly we received a temporary urgent order, ordering us to quickly deliver a batch of supplies to ten unmanned buildings on both sides of a certain national highway, the sooner the better.

We were all puzzled by this order: there was a shortage of manpower everywhere. Even with only 20 people, even if we work 24 hours a day, we cannot guarantee the minimum food needs of a city dweller. But now that we are suddenly asked to transport these things, what if there is no food in the city?

When we reached the eighth building, a cylindrical two-story building by the river, I couldn't support it because ————of the scorching heat and the fatigue of the days, and I was exhausted. The company commander had no choice but to leave me here and lead the others to continue delivering supplies. Before leaving, he told me to take a break and that he would be back in two or three hours. But there is no news of this one!

At first, I thought that the company commander must have received some temporary urgent mission, and he couldn't come for the time being. It's just right not to come, you can rest for a while, and think about the days of transporting grain these days! It's simply not human. But the company commander never came. I vaguely began to feel that something was wrong: there was a shortage of manpower everywhere, how could the company commander forget about me, a big living person! I didn't want to be shot, so I didn't dare to leave the outpost, but we were able to eat and drink with compressed biscuits and canned food, and there was a pressurized water well in the house. Later, when I was bored and wanted to see what else I could eat, I opened all the boxes and found that some of them contained guns and ammunition! It's really strange that the company commander dared to let me, a high school student, be in the company of such dangerous things, and he can rest assured! Maybe he didn't know what supplies he was transporting at that time, or he knew, but he felt that he was coming back soon, and it should be nothing serious, so he left with confidence.