Chapter 2 Rats

Chen Dong used to like to watch some foreign zombie apocalyptic movies, and he liked the plots in which the protagonists in the movies struggled in a difficult living environment and kept looking for a way to escape. In the movie, the shots of those heavy machine guns shooting and blasting the heads of zombies have always made Chen Dong feel in his heart that the emotions in his life that squeezed in his heart seem to erupt vividly with the fire tongue of the machine gun.

However, when Chen Dong found that the world he lived in had really become a picture in the movie, he began to fear again. Chen Dong doesn't know the reason for the zombie outbreak, but according to what he learned from the Internet, the zombie incidents in other regions should be similar to what he experienced, and there are not many survivors who can survive this disaster and not become zombies!

Chen Dong's life has always been very ordinary, carefully speaking, Chen Dong should be said to be very ordinary in life and ordinary. Chen Dong was born in a town under Feng'an County, which is directly under the control of Jinxiang City, but it is quite far away from Jinxiang City, and Chen Dong's parents are farmers with a very ordinary family background.

Chen Dong grew up in his hometown since he was a child, and studied in primary and junior high schools in the town. When he was admitted to high school, Chen Dong unexpectedly failed the college entrance examination, he was not admitted to a key high school, and after several setbacks at home, he asked someone to stuff a red envelope, and finally let Chen Dong study in a key high school.

In high school, Chen Dong is still ordinary, working hard with a group of people who are dragging the academic bully, studying hard, but the ordinary life setting determines his life path, and after graduating from high school, he was only admitted to a better junior college.

After three ordinary years in college, Chen Dong did not fall in love, nor did he make so-called bosom friends. At the crossroads of life, Chen Dong's life has not changed, countless interviews, and after being rejected by major companies, Chen Dong finally entered a machinery factory and became an ordinary worker.

In the machinery yard, Chen Dong's job is to repair machinery and equipment, and everything he learns in school is useless, and he has to put it down when he arrives in the factory. Chen Dong follows the master every day to learn to work, repair simple mechanical equipment, from the simple mechanical operation principle of the equipment to the maintenance of small parts of the equipment, Chen Dong is inseparable from electric welding and cutting every day, and is faced with a wrench and screwdriver.

Fortunately, the teachers in the factory are good, and they teach everything they know, Chen Dong has learned a lot of things, at least the position of ordinary workers cannot be lost, and he will not be fired. Later, after two years of continuous work, Chen Dong was frugal and barely accumulated some money.

Chen Dong's salary was not much, and Chen Dong's parents gave him some money, so that he could raise enough money for the down payment of the house and buy a house in Jinxiang City. In the future, Chen Dong also thought that he might live an ordinary life as before, pay the mortgage every month, and if he could have some money left, he would buy a car, find an ordinary wife, and be so ordinary for the rest of his life.

Ordinary life, so that Chen Dong is like a walking corpse, repeating the mechanical life day after day, every day is the same layer, childhood dreams have long been squeezed out of his mind, gradually gone, Chen Dong once dreamed of the second half of his life, he lived such a programmed life every day, until the end of his life.

Some people say that it is rare to be ordinary, maybe it is true, just like Chen Dong who is paralyzed at the moment, his situation is always not up or down, and the things he encounters are always good or bad, now the zombies outside the window are everywhere, but Chen Dong has not become a zombie, but he is destined not to go on smoothly, ordinary is just not good enough, it does not mean that he can always be comfortable.

He didn't have the money to hide here forever, because the little food in his house was running out......

"Squeak ~ Squeak ~ ~"

Chen Dong, who was half-lying on the bed, closed his eyes, and the last small piece of chocolate in his mouth slowly melted and was swallowed into his stomach. When Chen Dong was reluctant to open his eyes and savor the taste of chocolate, a series of small "squeak" sounds came into Chen Dong's ears.

Chen Dong opened his eyes, sat up from the bed, and looked at the source of the sound in his feelings.

The floor of the room is very messy, the cigarette butts are all over the ground, and there are a few biscuits, instant noodles and other food packaging bags, Chen Dong is not very clean, but maybe because it is not easy for him to buy a house, the house has always been kept clean and tidy, and the garbage all over the ground is also after the outbreak of the zombie incident in the past four days, because of the irritability, he has no intention of cleaning.

"Squeak~"

The scream sounded again, Chen Dong's eyes searched carefully, and saw a Master Kong instant noodle packaging bag on the ground suddenly bulging, and then, the cry came from the packaging bag again.

"Mouse?"

Looking at the swaying packaging bag and listening to the familiar but long-time unheard sound, Chen Dong finally determined what was in the bag. Chen Dong stood up and walked over slowly, and when he slowly squatted down in front of the bag, his hands pressed the bag at a very fast speed, and grabbed the mouth of the bag.

Inside, the rat sensed the danger and kept tossing and turning, trying to break through the plastic bag. Chen Dong reached out and grabbed the large glass cold water cup on the bedside table, opened the lid, quickly poured the mouse in the bag into the cup, and then pressed the lid back and tightened.

Now it is the scorching heat of August, it is the hottest time in the north, there are few large lakes and rivers in the terrain of the north, the air is relatively dry, Chen Dong is often thirsty at night has become a habit, the glass cold water cup has a large capacity and does not keep warm, used to dry boiled water, extremely practical and convenient.

The rats in the cup were constantly beating and tossing, the lid of the cold water cup was made of hard plastic, and there was no silk on the lid and the mouth of the cup.

"I'm rubbing, it's so big, zombies are rampant outside, I didn't expect you to eat such a heinous size!"

The rat in the cup is very big, in Chen Dong's memory, except for a long, long time ago, in the vague childhood memory, when the old hometown had not built a new house, there were often such big rats scurrying around on the beams of the old brick houses, and I had only seen such big rats in the back kitchen of the restaurant.

Looking at the big mouse trapped in the cup, Chen Dong's thoughts kept diverging. How did the rat grow so fat, I didn't find a mouse in my house before, why did one suddenly appear now?

Zombies are rampant outside, human lives are difficult to protect, this mouse is comfortably looking for food in the garbage bag he threw away, is it that the era of zombies is rampant, but it is more suitable for rats to survive? According to the theory of evolution of species, can the rat species evolve to a higher level in this human catastrophe?

This rat can be caught with his bare hands, this mouse's alertness is obviously not as good as the mouse he has encountered before, could it be said that the mouse has degraded its original instinct and has transformed in the process of evolution?

Chen Dong shook his head vigorously and threw out all the ridiculous thoughts in his head. Whether the rat is degrading instinct or the evolution of the species, seeing this fat mouse, Chen Dong thought of an extremely real problem, that is, there is not much food at home.

So far, there are still two steamed buns left in the house, plus a cauliflower weighing about one catty, and that's all, he didn't dare to eat it, in order to ensure survival.

Food is about to be cut off, and this is the biggest problem Chen Dong will face.

The mouse caught is so big, and there are more or less two taels of meat after the bones are shaved, if the food is cut off, the zombies rampant in the outside world are still not solved, will he have to rely on this thing as food to survive in the future?

The rat was trapped by the cup, and its experience seemed to be beyond his knowledge, only the panicked struggle, and at the same time, it was also trying various methods to try to break through the confinement that trapped him. The world outside the glass of cold water can be seen clearly through the wall of the glass in the eyes of the mouse, but he can't run to freedom.

Chen Dong's one hand was still pressing the lid of the cold water cup, and his idle other hand smoked a cigarette in the cigarette box on the table, lit it in his mouth, and inhaled deeply.

I don't know when, the mouse in the cold water cup stopped beating, but a pair of eyes turned sly, as if looking at Chen Dong, and also seemed to be scanning the furnishings in the room.

Chen Dong took a few puffs of cigarette in a row, then held the cigarette to the corner of his mouth, and then, he stood up and opened the curtain, facing out the window. Holding the cold water cup in front of him with both hands, Chen Dong stared at the big mouse lying motionless at the bottom of the cup.

Isn't he trapped in the house now like this rat trapped in a glass of cold water? The outside world can be seen clearly, but there is no ability to go out, there is no food to sustain survival, so you can only stay in a small space, slowly waiting until the end, hoping that something will change the status quo.

Pinning his hopes on an unknown tomorrow, Chen Dong did not dare to gamble with his life, after all, no one dared to guarantee that there would be a turnaround tomorrow.

The mouse is lying quietly at the bottom of the cup, just like Chen Dong who is now hiding in the house, Chen Dong is alive like a mouse, facing the same crisis as the mouse, waiting for death......

But what if the rat was given another chance to fight hard?

Chen Dong thought about it, opened the glass window that had been closed for four days, and then opened the lock on the anti-theft window outside the window and pushed open the anti-theft window. Without the obstruction of glass and anti-theft windows, the outside world can be seen more realistically and clearly, Chen Dong took a deep look at the mouse in the cup, and then, he held the cold water cup with both hands, raised his hand, and threw it out of the window.

The cold water cup rolled in the air, and the rat inside became active again, and the mouse flew out with the cold water cup, drawing an arc in the air, and then fell heavily to the ground.

After a crisp sound, the glass slag fragments collapsed, and the rats in the cold water cup regained their freedom, but in the next moment, the free rats faced a greater crisis, and the zombies around them who were wandering back and forth without purpose exploded at the same time, as if they got a signal at the same moment, howling and rushing towards the rats on the ground.

The howl of the zombies attracted more zombies to surround them, and in an instant, seven or eight zombies ran over. The rats ran around in a hurry against the ground, although the zombies' movements were fast, but they were a little clumsy, the rats dodged the outstretched claws again and again, and the dexterous bodies dodged the death crisis again and again.