Chapter 365: August 11th
August 11, 2015, 10 a.m.
Sixty-one days after the end of the world, two months after the event.
The location is still Norwich, the capital of Norfolk, a city also known as Norwich.
August in Norwich has entered her hottest month. However, due to its oceanic climate and proximity to the sea, it is not very hot.
Compared to many cities in China, Norwich can even be said to be a summer resort. Therefore, the rise in temperature is not a thing worth paying attention to at all for Li Fatzi and others.
It's been a month and a half since the last time Bao Si rescued Li Fat from the zombie pile.
In the past month and a half, Li Fatzi has fully recovered from the injuries he suffered, whether it is his nose, forehead, or ankle.
It is worth mentioning that Li Fatzi's younger brother is also fine, and he can continue to use it.
Through several experiments in the middle of the night, Li Fatzi got a very gratifying answer. The femme fatale did not kick the happiness of the rest of her life away.
By the way, don't get me wrong. Li Fatzi did it himself, and he had nothing to do with Dr. Baosi.
And because of this incident, for a long time, Bao Si kept the nickname Li Obscenity on her lips every day, sarcastically mocking him for secretly masturbating at night.
has been together for a long time, and Baosi is not an untrained little girl, so she naturally discovered those 'experiments' that Li Fatzi did at night.
In this regard, Li Fatzi just smiled helplessly every time, and did not make any unnecessary explanations. As long as his little brother is okay, she can say whatever she wants. Anyway, it's just the two of them, who cares.
It's also boring for Bao Si to talk about it alone, so the topic of Li Obscenity finally stopped one day.
Li Fatzi has another good news to tell you. That is, he and Pauss are still alive.
Although they were a little embarrassed, they managed to survive. In the past month and a half, there have been countless dangers, large and small. But fortunately, the two took care of each other, and finally overcame the difficulties one by one.
And their bodies are still very complete and healthy, and there are no broken arms, legs, ears, and blindness.
But. Don't rejoice too soon. The bad news is not without it, and there are quite a few of them. Li Fatzi thought about it and decided to start with the two major events that happened in Norwich.
The first big thing, probably one day in mid-July, was a power outage in Norwich.
Li Fatzi and Bao Si have never paid attention to the date, so they can't say exactly when the power will go out.
The outage was so widespread that almost the entire downtown and suburban areas of Norwich were left without power. At least in the nearly a month since the power went off, they haven't found any areas with electricity.
Except for some more special places. Aside from its own backup power supply, Norwich's power system has long since been paralyzed. It is unclear whether the blackout will be confined to the city of Norwich or the entire UK.
The blackout caused a lot of trouble for Li and Baosi, which meant that they had to live like blind people at night.
Electronic devices, such as mobile phones that can be used for lighting, DSLRs that can be used to take pictures, computers that pass the time and play stand-alone games. All of them turned into a pile of broken copper and iron.
Because the memorable photos on the phone were no longer visible, Buss complained about it for several days. Paul's complaint seemed to have some effect. During the first two or three days of the outage, power was occasionally restored.
However, after the third day, the electricity supply was completely gone.
In short, there were still some useful electronic devices, but now they can only be used as bricks for shooting zombies.
At the beginning of the power outage, the two of them were still a little uncomfortable. After all, they are accustomed to living in a civilized society with bright lights. Now you have to rely on lighters and matches for lighting, which is a bit of an eye-wrenching.
Therefore, from the day the power was cut off, Li Fatzi and Bao Si gave up their night operations. While they move during the day, they also need to find a good place to rest at night.
If Boss shouts tired. Li Fatzi will not force her to continue to act as before. After all, these days are different, even at night, they still need to maintain a good level of energy in case accidents can happen at any time.
As for the food and water they need every day, they also need to find it in the limited time during the day, otherwise they will only be thirsty and hungry at night.
Luckily, although the electricity supply has disappeared, there is still running water. Lai and Bao Si did not know how the British water works were supplied. But now that they have water to drink, they don't think about it that much.
Since the power outage, the two of them have been keeping several buckets of water in their cars in case there is a sudden water outage one day.
Although the power outage is already a terrible thing, it is nothing compared to the second important thing.
If it has to be summed up in two words, like the first thing, say power outage. Li Fatzi thought about it, and only the word evolution could be used to summarize the second thing.
However, since the nature of the second thing is much more complicated than a power outage, two words are obviously not enough.
About a few days before the power outage, that is, around July 12th, some zombies changed.
This kind of change is still a little different from the whimsical evolution in the novel.
They don't have any thick-skinned, big-bodied tank zombies, nor do they have the kind of hunter zombies that come and go without a trace and are extremely fast, nor are they zombies that can blow themselves up, or breathe smoke, or have intelligence, or know how to use props.
Their changes are mainly focused on movement speed and reaction speed.
As mentioned before, Li Fatzi and they once found that the movement and reaction speed of zombies in the middle of the night will increase. Although the increase is modest, they are still more threatening at night compared to their slow performance during the day.
Nowadays, not only at night, but also the movement and reaction speed of some zombies during the day have begun to change. And this change is even more terrifying than how they performed at night before. Say it's a run, zombies. Not exaggerating.
The power outage is certainly a big blow to the survivors. But this basically does not affect their actions during the day. This transformation of zombies greatly increases the difficulty for survivors to survive, day and night.
For this change in the appearance of zombies, Li Fatzi called it 'evolution'. And this is based on Darwin's theory of evolution, which is well-founded.
Actually, those evolutions in web novels. It should be called a 'jump'. For example, zombies are divided into various types because of the talents they carry, and they also have a hierarchy. Over time, the zombie's own talent will continue to be strengthened, and the zombie's level will continue to rise.
On the other hand, survivors will also have various 'jumps'. Some of them will have all kinds of incredible superpowers. And they can also constantly change through various ways to continuously enhance their abilities, so that they can fight against zombies that have been escalating.
Li Fatzi has read a lot of online novels before, and he knows a lot about this kind of thing. When I went to the villa area to save people before. Li Fatzi and Lao Yan, as well as Xiao Hong Kong, also discussed such a thing.
As for whether zombies will evolve a variety of types, abilities, and even wisdom like in the novel, Li Fatzi really can't guess with just a sling.
However, what Li Fatzi said was also a student biography. And for three years in college and one year in graduate school, he was persistently studying, which he didn't love. But you have to get a diploma in biology.
Although Li Fatzi studies averagely, he usually doesn't soak in the library much. But he still knows some of the most basic knowledge.
Take, for example, Darwin's theory of evolution.
The zombies and survivors in the online novel, they have all undergone a kind of 'jump'. Darwin's theory of evolution, on the other hand, is precisely against the theory of 'leap'.
One of the main elements of Darwin's theory of evolution is the 'gradual change theory'. According to Darwin, the pace of biological evolution is gradual. It is a gradual improvement process that accumulates small dominant variations under the influence of natural selection. And not a jump.
However, during Darwin's lifetime and for a long time after his death, most biologists, especially paleontologists, believed that biological evolution was capable of leaps. They believe that the new forms and organs are the result of a big leap. Rather than small variations that accumulate slowly and gradually under the influence of natural selection.
To this day, as a topic that is still controversial, this question often appears on Li Fatzi's exam papers. That's why Li Fatzi has an understanding of the 'gradual change theory' in Darwin's theory of evolution and the 'leap theory' of most scholars.
Today's scholars generally believe that 'gradual change' and 'leap theory' coexist, and there is no contradiction between them. Li Fatzi also agrees with this middle-of-the-road view.
However, even the leaps we speak of here do not refer to the evolution that occurs between generations or generations. It may have gone through thousands, tens of thousands, or even millions of years, but it is very short in terms of geological time.
Like in the online novel, in just one night, or a week, or a month, zombies or survivors will be upgraded to gain various special abilities, and then Li Fatzi, who studies biology, believes that this kind of thing cannot happen in the real world.
Even if such a 'jump' exists, no one can say how much time it will take to achieve it.
For this kind of 'jump', in the long period of the earth's existence, even if it has gone through hundreds or thousands of years, it can be called a 'leap'. Li Fatzi thinks that it is delusional that he wants to live for another ten years, let alone whether he can live to see this kind of 'leap'.
In short, zombies, creatures that were once considered to be imaginary, have appeared on the earth, so all kinds of leaps and evolutions should theoretically exist.
It's just that the reality is that the zombies don't have that terrible 'jump', but are 'gradual'.
It's only a 'gradual change', but it's enough to cause a lot of trouble for the survivors, which is far more terrible than a power outage. (To be continued.) )
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