Three days, seventy-two hours, four thousand three hundred and twenty minutes

In what human beings think is a long life, this little bit of time belongs to the white horse passing gap, and no one cares, but for everyone on the research ship, it is a nightmare experience.

The two infected people did not escape the devouring of the zombie pathogen, and died less than four hours after the high fever.

As reported on radio and satellite television, the characteristics of this epidemic are very similar to the common common colds, cold, wind, cough, runny nose and fever, and eventually the condition deteriorates and becomes a bloodthirsty and cannibalistic zombie.

The most unacceptable thing is that after Chen Hansheng and Tu Hongye's repeated confirmation, this virus is, strictly speaking, an artificially improved artificial virus based on the virulence of zombie pathogens and colds!

Although the pathogenic effect of this zombie virus is very similar to the zombie virus that has appeared in Wang Chen and Liu Shuhuan, there is a fatal difference, the zombie virus similar to the effect of cold virus or avian influenza virus produced by the natural mutation of zombie pathogens is spread by droplets most of the time, and it does not survive for a long time in the natural environment.

However, the emerging zombie virus is different, it spreads through the air and can use the lung cells of most mammals to multiply, and it spreads extremely fast! As long as the host immunity is low or even a little uncomfortable, it will attack quickly, and the host is not limited to humans, as long as it is a mammal, it can become a host, the difference is that the incidence of humans is extremely high, and the incidence of other mammals is extremely low! You must know that there is no precedent for cross-species pathogenic viruses to be transmitted by air alone, and even avian influenza viruses are transmitted by droplets, so it can be confirmed that this new virus must be artificially modified!

Artificially modified the gene fragments of zombie pathogens after colding and set precise outbreak conditions!

Fortunately, the lethality of the man-made virus cannot violate the most basic laws of nature, precisely because its onset and spread speed is super fast, so the time of extinction is also quite fast, in a more popular adjective, it is three words.

A wave of streams.

It should be said that the zombie pathogens and their natural variants that appeared before were just a cover for the upgraded version of the zombie virus, using the variability of zombie pathogens to divert the attention of countries, interfere with the direction of vaccine research in various countries, and waste the time and energy required to research vaccines! By the time the power of the 'Lord' is revealed, it will be too late for each country to save its citizens!

It can be inferred from this that the pair of outlaw mandarin ducks must be keen on physical communication, but as a result, they were too naked in the lifeboat on the foredeck and caught a cold, and made a couple in the underworld, although such a report cleared Wang Chen and their suspicion of South Americans, but it did not help the epidemic prevention work of the scientific research ship in the slightest, because the long sailing career will inevitably weaken the physical fitness of the crew, especially near the end of the voyage, no one can avoid a headache and brain fever, can only look forward to returning to the shore to take good care, which Cheng thought, Will you encounter a new zombie virus outbreak?

Perhaps, in this virus epidemic with a high mortality rate, the only thing that survivors can be thankful for is that as the weather cools, the body temperature of the corpse will drop rapidly, so the speed of the virus reproduction will also be affected, so the speed of corpse zombieization is much slower than the previous two outbreaks.

To say that Captain Shi's handling of this matter is quite decisive, he quickly ordered that except for the personnel who maintain the normal navigation of the research ship, the rest of the personnel must carry three days of foster care to lock themselves in the cabin, and there is no need to absolutely not take a step in the cabin! He did this to limit the spread of zombie pathogens to the greatest extent, but unfortunately, in just sixty hours, more than two-thirds of the crew members still had varying degrees of illness, some crew members took advantage of their sanity to simply commit suicide by throwing themselves into the sea, and some crew members tried everything to survive, from bloodletting therapy to binge eating all the medicines they could find.

Applying for rescue from the superiors, Yang Xiaohua did it as soon as possible, but the news of Zheng Fan's return was not good, and he simply told them that the situation in China was severe, and the security department did not have the manpower to help the four people or even the entire research ship, so that they could handle all matters related to the research ship and assemble at a location in the suburbs of BJ by themselves, and only when they got there could they get safe shelter and help.

The problem is that the epidemic prevention conditions on the scientific research ship are simply not able to prevent the zombie pathogens with the characteristics of cold viruses, let alone sail into the Bohai Bay port when the crew begins to get sick in large numbers and lack manpower.

In the last twelve hours before docking, the research ship was actually in a semi-adrift state, including the captain, most of the crew members were not spared, and the first mate who fell ill at the latest made a decision for the comatose captain that the research ship, which was already full of infected people, would stop sailing to the mainland and look for offshore islands to run aground, for a very simple reason.

Reduce one source of infection.

Even though the world was rapidly covered by a new zombie virus during these three days, and the slightest cold and fever could kill you and eventually become a zombie, the first mate's decision was actually meaningless, but it was still fully supported by the captain after he briefly woke up from his coma, and those who were still conscious agreed to do so, in the captain's words, it would be the last meaningful thing they could do for the country.

The few crew members who were not infected, as well as Wang Chen, could leave the research ship in a lifeboat and go to a mainland port on their own to seek refuge. Those crew members who have not yet become ill seem to have reached a tacit understanding, completely ignoring Wang Chen's security agents, putting down the lifeboat and leaving without even saying the destination, Wang Chen and several people can't make a hot face and stick each other's cold buttocks, and take Joanna and Pablo, who are not yet ill, to take the other two powered lifeboats, according to Beidou navigation, take the closest straight line to the land, and leave the scientific research ship full of dead bodies. Yes, the South Americans who survived the drug cartel did not escape the virus, only Joanna, Pablo and a young woman named Ellie survived, and the rest of the men, women and children also died or were on the verge of death in just a few dozen hours. On the contrary, Wang Chen and the four of them have no problems at all, and the survival rate is one hundred percent, no wonder the surviving crew insists on not following them all the way, in fact, these crew members look at these four people very right, in exchange for who is full of colleagues and friends on the ship, and the four foreign 'agents' have no, I am afraid that there will be suspicion and dissatisfaction in their hearts, fortunately, these surviving crew members generally have a high level of education, but they are not good at using knives and guns, otherwise, a battle evolved from doubt is inevitable.

The six people took two lifeboats, and they didn't have much sailing experience, and the speed of progress in the vast sea was not as good as the cruising speed of the research ship, so they could only barely accept it, and they drifted at sea for almost 20 hours, approaching sunset, and finally saw the long-awaited coastline.

It's just that no one can be happy.

There are as many as six or seven burning ignition points in the field of vision alone, which is far from the kind of eight-strand text that is repeated every thirty minutes on the radio, and the military, police and civilians work together to stabilize the situation, without Wang Chen's reminder, Yang Xiaohua, who was on the same boat, had already taken out the civilian mobile phone she had brought on the scientific research ship, her fingers trembled slightly, and she began to call her parents, and Ma Tian beside her was the same.

The civil communication signal along the coast is indeed still unblocked, but Xiaohua's parents and Ma Tian's father, who is the commander of the armed police, did not respond to the call of the two, and after confirming that they could not be connected, the two could only send a text message to report their safety.

Logically speaking, Ma Tian's father, as the commander of the armed police division, should be the person with the highest probability of survival, Xiaohua's parents are just ordinary civilians, even if Zhang Fu promised before departure, as a relative of the security department, he will be properly taken care of, but Zhang Fu himself is gone, how effective his verbal promise can be, no one knows the four people on the lifeboat.

At this time, a mental breakdown is not a good choice, no matter how anxious Ma Tian and Yang Xiaohua are, they can only bury such emotions in the bottom of their hearts.

Approaching the coast, Wang Chen manipulated the engine to steer, chose a place with a relatively wide field of vision and prepared to stop the boat, seeing the beach in sight, everyone's hearts were also raised, and from a distance, there seemed to be a lot of tourists basking in the sun on the beach, and when they looked closely, there were dozens of corpses of different shapes!

The situation is far worse than the radio and even the imagination of the people!

Wang Chen didn't want to be surrounded by these corpses, even if it would take some time for them to. 'Move on your own', he drove the lifeboat to another beach to dock, and drove out for about twenty minutes, seeing that the fuel indication of the lifeboat engine was about to go to zero, and a fisherman's stall with a fence appeared in front of everyone's eyes, Wang Chen didn't dare to be careless, he turned off the engine and lifted the engine horizontally, to avoid some unnecessary trouble caused by the noise, and patiently let the lifeboat move slowly under the push of the waves, until it ran aground on the beach that was not too big next to the fisherman's stall.

At the same time as turning over and getting off the boat, Wang Chen drew his pistol and walked forward side by side with Pablo, who was also holding a tattered AK, and ran to the beach one left and one right, first stepping over two white male corpses that had been blistered by the sea and half of their necks were missing.

Women are often the best microcosm of understanding a society.

The same goes for female corpses.

To say that the two corpses with half of their necks missing may also be executed because of zombieization, these three female corpses have obvious traces of rape and murder, and they all seem merciful to describe them with death without blinding, except for the women who are fifty years old and are still happy, the remaining two women who are less than thirty years old, just look at their lower bodies surrounded by dried blood, the fragments of beer bottles poking out of the hidden places, and the corners of their eyes and mouths torn by pain, you know what kind of tragedy they have experienced.

Fang Qiang and Joanna, who arrived later, were also silent when they saw this tragic scene, only Yang Xiaohua had a gloomy face, stepped forward and closed the eyes of the female corpse, and finally took out a few handfuls of sand and covered their bodies, barely giving the three of them a funeral.

also buried the last trace of luxury in everyone's hearts.

"Wang, I thought that to get out of the drug syndicate was to get out of hell, and now, hell, again, eats me." Joanna's face was ugly, and after she finished speaking to Wang Chen in English, she exchanged a few words with Ellie in Spanish to Pablo, and then said, "Next, what should we do?" ”

Wang Chen originally wanted to use his identity as a security agent to contact the nearest ******** agency, whether it is the People's Liberation Army or the armed police, and seek their refuge and settle these companions. Now it seems that this idea is a bit too naïve, and it is possible to see such an inhuman scene on any beach, which means that the social order has completely collapsed, and it is necessary to be able to survive until the military and police force arrives, not to mention how high the 'odds of winning the lottery' are.

In other words, if you want to live, you have to save yourself first!

"Don't look at me, I have difficulty choosing, I can advise you on something, and decide on your next decision." Fang Qiang saw that Wang Chen looked at him with the meaning of consultation, and simply said frankly: "If you want to say that I want to let Brother Fang and I take you to mix in society, Brother Fang must be fine, now you have seen this meeting, it is not at all that the set of rules of the society can solve, among several of us, only you have the best English, I know you these days, your kid has a very calm personality, he is a leader, and I think your physique is stronger than Ma Tian and that Pablo, although I don't know how you practice, at least you can achieve the results I did when I was in the army." ……”

Some people talk a lot when they are nervous and have no ideas, Fang Qiang obviously belongs to this type, Wang Chenqiang couldn't help but roll his eyes, and simply waved his hand to cut off: "Xiaohua, can I use the information in the notebook?" ”

After confirming that the epidemic was out of control on the research ship, Wang Chen began to prepare for the survival operation after landing, if he went ashore and contacted the organization as soon as he got shelter, it is needless to say, if this is the case, self-reliance should become the first choice of everyone.

Yang Xiaohua used the satellite communication device on the scientific research ship to collect information by all means according to Wang Chen's request, but the authority of the four special services was not high, and even the notebook could not browse too much information, so Yang Xiaohua had no way to contact the address information of the security department to store a large number of materials, nor did she have the means to invade the security network to decipher, so she could only use the help of Zhao Ying of the forward base to collect information on people's livelihood and low-level and small number of security material storage points.

With Wang Chen's inquiry, Yang Xiaohua opened the notebook and folded it into a tablet, and began to use the mobile phone map to correspond to the notebook map, confirming the location of everyone, and at the same time explained: "The high-level supply points of the National Treasure Bureau are not available to us at the security level, they are all low-level warehouses for temporary replenishment, and there are also temporary material warehouses established by the militia, but my friend specially reminded that when the materials and weapons were issued earlier, the management was relatively chaotic, and the materials in many warehouses were embezzled. So don't believe too much in the internal information that the local government will release after reporting, okay, confirm our location, well, it's about fifteen kilometers away from the nearest county-level material warehouse, and it's in, yes, it's in that direction. ”

Looking at Yang Xiaohua's fingers, there was a tumbling black column of smoke in the field of vision, or the kind of huge column of smoke that could be seen more than ten kilometers away......

The atmosphere was a little awkward, and everyone remained silent.

Regardless of whether there are supplies in that warehouse or not, it is unlikely that it will survive the burning scene.

"If the material warehouse is not harvested, there is a rural credit cooperative in the county town to the north, which is a supply point for the security department, the lowest level."

"Well, it's less than an hour before it gets dark, in fact, we don't have much time, we have to find a place to live for a long time before the corpses are mass zombies, I estimate, it's a matter of three or five days." Wang Chen looked at the sky and the surrounding scene, and decided: "Let's go get a car first, and then let's go to the warehouse, maybe it's not the material warehouse that is on fire, anyway, it's necessary to have a car to travel, first spend the night in the material warehouse, the army can't come, let's go by ourselves!" Go to the barracks and seek refuge! If you are at worst, you can also find satellite communication equipment and restore contact with the security services. ”

"Done!"

"I'm okay with that!"

"Then it's decided! Get the car first! Wang Chen subconsciously waved his hand, and he really had the momentum of a leader.

What is surprising is that the first to start the car is not Fang Qiang, a driving all-rounder who deals with machinery all year round, nor Wang Chen, a family heirloom craftsman who deals with cars when he is small, except for his unfamiliar driving skills, he can sleep with tires, but Pablo! This South American rough guy steals cars quite quickly and in one go!

It's really all in one go! The butt of the gun smashed the window, opened the car door, sat in the cab, broke the keyhole, pulled out the wires, and started the car, the whole time was less than two minutes!

Perhaps, such a method is not something to boast about in a society with legal restrictions, but in today's time when the law has collapsed and the social system has disappeared, it is worthy of praise and praise.

Pablo pried open an old Great Wall H6, sitting seven people is obviously a little crowded, with him's 'master', Fang Qiang simply let Pablo pry open a golden cup bread coated with fisherman's advertising, this car is more than enough for seven people, the horsepower is big enough, the front and rear are also equipped with bumpers, crushing a zombie is not a problem, between the seat and the carriage stuffed from the fisherman's stall removed from the thin iron sheet, according to Pablo's description, this kind of ' It is absolutely impossible to resist rifle bullets in modifications, pistol bullets from twenty meters away can definitely be blocked, pistol bullets from ten meters away can be turned, as for pistol bullets fired at close range, it depends on God's mood.

Well, maybe the four secret agents who are halfway out of the house don't talk about it, but they must admit in their hearts that having a street crime expert around at this time will indeed give people more confidence.

The Great Wall H6 was not wasted, in addition to replenishing the gasoline to the golden cup bread, the remaining gasoline was mixed with sugar and rubber crumbs found in the fisherman's stall by Pablo and poured into the beer bottle, not much, only a dozen bottles, according to Pablo's description, this kind of improvised incendiary bomb can be thrown out of the range of deflagration can be two or three meters, and the range of splashing is at least five meters, and the effect on zombies without pain is not great, how to deal with people...... Just thinking about it gives people goosebumps and is vicious.

In a blink of an eye, I thought of the three dead corpses, and the four of them did not object to Pablo doing this, and the viciousness was also the viciousness of the enemy, which was better than the people around him being trampled to death.

After a brief preparation, a group of seven people set off again, and under the driving of Fang Qiang, Jinbei Bread drove towards the location of the smoke column.

The scene along the way is more shocking than the beach fisherman's stall, the corpses are gradually increasing, and the zombies are also appearing sporadically, as if to indicate that hell is approaching, and when the van turns onto the main road and enters a small town by the sea, the streets of the town are full of dead bodies, and there is not even a 'mourning', only dead people, dead people, still dead people! All sorts of dead people! If a writer with obsessive-compulsive disorder were asked to describe the corpse in this scene, he would be able to write three or five thousand words without duplication!

Compared with the four people who have already seen the sea of zombies, including the crime expert Pablo, the three South Americans are obviously the first time to see such a big scene, no way, the world's No. 1 drug trafficking group may have seen many tragedies, but it does not mean that they have seen such a big 'human tragedy', even Pablo is a little pale, and the woman named Ellie is even more because the smell of corpses is too strong, pushing the car window and spitting up! It's also a coincidence, maybe it's the sound of the car passing by that that has attracted the attention of the zombies, or maybe some people have been stimulated to the limit and may go crazy at any time, just when Ellie's woman stopped vomiting, a figure jumped from the residential building where the van passed - I don't know if it was a living person or a dead person, and she fell straight in front of Ellie's eyes and burst her brain, this is good, Ellie didn't vomit, she fainted directly.

Ma Tianyan quickly dragged the fainting Ellie, Yang Xiaohua and Joanna coincidentally unscrewed the mineral water and wanted to rinse Ellie, but stopped at the same time, in the absence of supplies, clean fresh water is also precious, so Joanna simply took off Ellie's top to wipe her face and checked whether Ellie was suffocated by vomit, completely ignoring Ellie's topless and being semi-naked, Yang Xiaohua pulled the cloth chair cover on the Jinbei car and covered Ellie's body as a temporary cover.

The vehicle could not continue to move forward near the center of the town, in front of it was a large pile of rubble that could not be said for any reason, not to mention the van, it would take time for the tank to climb this pile of things, Fang Qiang had to turn the head of the car and find the way forward again under the guidance of Yang Xiaohua, and knocked over several zombies along the way to show the strength of the bumper of the Jinbei car, and before the sky was completely dark, the seven people finally came to the periphery of the material warehouse.

The idea is wonderful, the reality is cruel, the fire and burning happened to be the material warehouse marked on the map, to say the only good news, except for the material warehouse, the other buildings around the warehouse have not been affected, so Wang Chen and his party do not have to worry about having no place to live at night.

As far as the line of sight can see, are some half-open buildings that are ventilated on all sides, belonging to the kind of large trucks that can directly reverse into the storage warehouse for loading and unloading goods, and only the end of the cement road, the faintly visible farmhouse buildings look quite stable, Fang Qiang manipulated the Jinbei car to bypass the side of the warehouse that was still burning and constantly drifting black smoke, and was about to pass through the intersection of the main entrance of the warehouse, when he suddenly braked sharply and stopped the Jinbei car.

Under the headlights of the Jinbei car, there is a woman sitting more than ten meters away from the front of the car, this woman faces the burning material warehouse, sideways to the Jinbei car, lowers her head and can't see the expression, she is wearing a tattered top without pants, the torn clothes are loosely put on her, with the hot air generated by the burning of the warehouse from time to time shakes a few times and leaks a lot of spring light, just looking at the sitting posture, maybe the woman is dead, but the things under her are a little terrifying, that is a zombie that is still writhing!

Perhaps it was the moxibustion of the fire that accelerated the speed of the zombie, the zombie's whole body was burned to tatters, almost scorched, the chin and arms were gone, naturally there was no way to get up from the ground, so she could only let the woman press on the back of the exposed backbone, and twist twice from time to time to show that she still had a desire for flesh and blood.

Since she can sit on the body of a writhing zombie, this woman must still be alive.

"It's not good! Do you want to crash over? Fang Qiang looked at the woman's tattered clothes that could only cover the upper half of her body, and only three words came out of his mind: beauty plan!

Wang Chen also thinks the same way, but he is not as radical as Fang Qiang, the four old men each have a gun, Joanna can also use Glock 26 as a support, there are not many bullets, there are still six magazines, if someone wants to use this woman to attract everyone's attention to a siege, I am afraid that they will break their mouths full of big teeth.

Taking out the Glock 17 cartridge and loading it, Wang Chen motioned for the others to stay in the car, patted Pablo on the shoulder, and the latter also pulled the bolt of the tattered AK with a cruel laugh, and the two got out of the Jinbei car one after the other, first scanning back to back to the highest point of the four miles, at least confirming that there was no danger within the effective range of the pistol, and then cautiously approached the woman.

Seeing someone approaching, the woman didn't react much, just turned her face and looked at the two men with a dull gaze, as if her mind was already empty and couldn't think, until the two of them walked to a place about five or six meters away from her and stopped, without waiting for Wang Chen to ask, the woman herself asked in a hoarse voice: "You want to go to me?" Come one by one or all together? ”

Hearing the woman say this, Wang Chen's heart suddenly hurt like a pinprick, and he suddenly remembered that Han Li, who was on the verge of mental collapse in the sanatorium, had also said something of similar significance.

Wang Chen didn't move, but Pablo was nervous, he may not have a high IQ, he just yearns to eat, drink and have fun, but he grew up in a drug cartel, has a lot of criminal experience, and has repeatedly brushed shoulders with death and even cultivated some kind of beast intuition, in Pablo's opinion, this woman sits sideways, it doesn't seem to be harmful, but the other party's right hand is always on his side, and after getting closer, you can be sure that the other party is holding something similar to a gun, from the appearance, this small gun really has no deterrent effect and even looks like a clumsy toy, But Pablo didn't dare to take it lightly! He took a small half step forward, pressed AK's handguard with his left hand, and half-pulled the trigger with his right index finger, AK's muzzle was facing the woman's head, and as soon as the woman's shoulders shook slightly, Pablo swore in his mother's name that the woman's head would bloom immediately!

The companion was highly nervous, but Wang Chen's hand hung down, because he felt that there was no tyranny and cruelty in this woman, only numbness and sadness, just like Han Li, who had lost sleep all night because of nervous tension before, they were all victims of this fucking world, looking at the woman's tattered clothes that leaked flesh everywhere, Wang Chen simply inserted the pistol back into his belt, and in Pablo's extremely nervous gaze, he took off his shirt and unfolded it with both hands, and slowly walked towards the woman in front of him......