Chapter Seventy-Nine: The Ball (2)

The funeral of Albert and John Jones was held as scheduled, and the bodies of the two of them were parked in the library for three or four days for Ariana to conduct an autopsy, the weather in June and July was hot and humid, and the corpses were very destructible, so Ariana vacated a large freezer for the burial of the corpses, but the two men were too large to fit into the freezer, John Jones was a strong man with a height of nearly 1.9 meters, the length of the freezer was only about 1.7 meters, and the corpse lay in with two feet on the outside.

So Anna sawed off his calves with a saw, and stuffed the shorter body into the cabinet along with his two calves, which was supposed to be a degrading act and disrespectful to the deceased to destroy the integrity of the corpse...... But the director didn't care, she just felt that she couldn't make the refrigerator longer, so she had to cut the body short.

In the next two days, people occasionally came to the library, and when they caught a glimpse of the director sitting in the laboratory through the window, carrying a frozen human leg in his hand, he was immediately frightened.

The director didn't care, and her nickname of Doctor Chainsaw's corpse maniac hadn't been on her head for a day or two.

The way to dispose of corpses in the safe zone is to cremate and bury, and there is an incinerator in the academy that used to burn garbage, which is rarely used in normal times, and once used, it is an accident...... The last time the security zone was attacked by marauders, the Executive Department spent a full day cleaning up the battlefield, containing the bodies of the dead hunters and the unfortunate members of the unit, and sending them to the incinerator for cremation. The disposal of corpses is a crucial job, especially the corpses of hunters and zombies, which need to be evacuated and emptied of the surrounding ordinary people, and carried by the executive department wearing protective suits and driving forklifts, hunters are still infectious for a long time after death, so they need to be cautious.

The temperature inside the incinerator can reach up to 1,300 degrees Celsius, even iron can be burned, and the doomsday virus will completely turn into carbon dioxide in this extreme environment.

The 100 people in the courtyard stood neatly on the lawn, out of the central path, all dressed in black with solemn expressions. The funeral required all the members of the security zone to participate, but no one wanted to participate in such a meeting, and each funeral meant that the academy had lost its staff again, and the human civilization that had been like a candle in the wind had weakened a little.

In ecology, there is a concept of "random extinction", which means that when the population of a species declines to a certain point, the population of animals will not be enough to resist some sudden disaster, resulting in sudden extinction, such as large-scale plagues, infectious diseases, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and other natural disasters. Now there are only about 100 people left in Shanghai, and there are more than 120 when Lu Xun entered the academy, but after several attacks in the past year, the academy has been seriously reduced, and now there are only one hundred and three people in the entire security zone, which is extremely critical from a biological point of view, and it is only one step away from extinction.

Hunters and zombies have no idea of protecting endangered animals, and the only thing that humans have survived is their technology and weapons, but they will never be able to withstand any unexpected accidents again.

The atmosphere is very heavy, the cemetery is on the lawn behind the college, there are many tombstones and crosses, the latest tombstones have been erected for only a few months, the oldest tombstones have been standing for many years, the rocks have been worn away by wind and rain, the base is covered with moss, and under each tombstone there are different people buried, and different epitaphs are engraved on them, no one knows if these tombstones will become the last witnesses of human civilization.

The last person to die must have had no tombstone, because no one came to bury him.

People gathered together through these stone monuments, standing neatly on both sides of the path, there were a total of a hundred people present, and the three odds who did not attend were Zhao Gao, Lu Xun, and Fei Bi, who was kidnapped.

If their whereabouts are not found after a while, the academy will also prepare a funeral for them, and there will be three more clothed mounds in the cemetery. At present, the status of those three people is still "missing", in the regulations of the security zone, missing in the restricted area for more than three months can be judged as dead, these three months are just a written number, in fact, everyone knows that there is no need to wait that long, based on the experience of the executive department, the possibility of survival in the restricted area missing for more than 24 hours is very small.

Everyone was waiting quietly, no one was talking, and the cold wind was mixed with rain.

The Executive showed up with the urn in hand, and they walked through the crowd to the cemetery at the end of the path, where the tombstone had been erected, two gray crosses, because Albert and John Jones were both Christians during their lifetimes, and their epitaph was engraved on the base of the cross, "Cast cold eyes, see life, see death." Knight, ride forward" and "Here lies a man, whose name is written on everyone's heart".

The middle-aged man plays the priest, and the person who used to stand in this position was the colonel, but the latter is also absent today.

This came as a surprise to everyone, the Colonel never missed anyone's funeral, and in his words he was a captain who had to see off passengers himself.

Lemon stood beside Belle, and the girl saluted with the others as the urn passed in front of her.

Lemon was a little absent-minded, her mind was not on the funeral, this morning she received a notice from the top of the academy that the search operation for Zhao Gao and Lu Xun was suspended, and at the same time, the executive department and the entire hummingbird hunting team were notified, and the top management ordered the security zone to lift martial law, and everyone was transferred to normal duty, Lemon was taken aback...... Is the academy going to give up those three people? She immediately found the colonel's office, but the colonel was not there, and it was a middle-aged man sitting behind the desk.

The middle-aged man greeted Lemon with a smile, and before the girl could ask anything, he stepped forward and patted Lemon on the shoulder and said that everything would be taken care of properly, everything was in the plan of the academy, and then sent her out the door.

Lemon tilted her head slightly, her gaze crossed the crowd, and the middle-aged man was holding the cross and praying.

"This righteous man should be remembered when he was taken away, and the death of this virtuous man should be taken to heart. His peaceful eyes were just a long sleep, waiting for the day when he would be awakened by God......"

The urn was slowly lowered into the grave, and the middle-aged man stepped forward to place the cross on the urn, then got up and took two steps back.

"May God forgive you as you forgive others." The middle-aged man recited softly, "Man comes from dust and returns to dust, and the soul comes from God and returns to God, may your soul rest in heaven." ”

The people around began to shovel the soil, and splashes of floating soil covered the urn.

The middle-aged man watched as the urn was gradually buried in the dirt, he paused, drew a cross on his chest, and whispered, "Amen."