Section 248 On the other side of the city
"Many of them may have been bitten a long time ago, and they have been hiding it and never talking about it to others."
"We can only do our best to get more people out of the city."
Dense crowds of people poured out from the various street intersections, gathered in relatively open places, and swarmed along the avenues that run through the central axis of the city, towards the northern end.
There are still a lot of people staying in their homes.
The explosion in the distance was so slight that it was not even felt at all. The city is so large that the distance cancels out the sound and vibrations, making it difficult to detect.
Many citizens were horrified. They began to push open the closed door and exchange their views and concerns with their equally skeptical neighbors. Then, through their own understanding and screening, it becomes a fixed thinking consciousness in the brain.
The dead gray TV screen was covered with dust, and without electricity, it could only sit there quietly and become a useless ornament.
The first person to step out of the house is undoubtedly lucky.
After that, the countless residents who walked out of the reinforced concrete buildings turned into a huge and dense flow of people. They stood on the side of the road with the last of their luck, eagerly asking the passing convoy what had happened. The answer is nothing more than a few simple words.
"Dangerous ————"
"Run ————"
After a brief moment of astonishment and shock, the residents began to join the fleeing tide at an unprecedented rate. The slender flow of people quickly became large and crowded, and the various types of vehicles in between them became difficult. The anxious honking of the driver, the quarrels and quarrels caused by the crowding, the cries of the children at a loss, the senseless invectives and accusations, and the shouts and urges that never lacked in the ranks all converged over the city into the favorite chaotic music of the god of death.
Liu Tianming was a little puzzled.
He glanced at Qi Yuanchang and Huang He, who were sitting across the fire, and found that they were the same as himself, with a strange look in their eyes.
Huang He first shouted: "No! We were in the city at the time, so why didn't we see what you were talking about? ”
Qi Yuanchang also said: "I received the news in the early hours of the morning, and then I brought people out of the police station. The command center sent a few messages saying that the garrison troops had been dispatched and asked us to provide support to the best of our ability. However, no similar information has been received since. ”
"I don't know why the communication was cut off."
Gu Kegang sighed: "The location where we set up the defense line is in the south, across the river. Originally, I wanted to blow up the bridge, but the follow-up equipment never arrived. The orders given by the command center are also ambiguous. At first it was said that artillery could be used, and later it was said that shelling was forbidden and flamethrows were changed. There were cars everywhere and a lot of scattered buildings also caused us trouble. The armored forces repeatedly blocked their attacks, and the terrain was chaotic. At that time, the artillery attack was indeed unable to cause widespread damage to the walking corpses. ”
"There's something worse to come. The management of the municipal sector is very chaotic. I don't know exactly when they were alerted to the virus, and we didn't get any help from the municipality at the time. There was no power supply, no alarms could be sounded, and even hand-cranked alarms were not equipped. ”
As he spoke, Gu Kegang remembered that night again.
The flaming flames lit up in the darkness, and the rising smoke quickly filled all the gaps that might reveal the light. Dense clouds obscured the faint light of distant planets, and under the darkness, the tall concrete buildings that stood in the distance looked so cold.
Several military assault vehicles were scattered along the flanks of the road exit, as well as two restocked tanks, also with their thick barrels held high, vigilantly observing all movements around them. The high beams at the very front of the hull emit long bursts of incandescent light, which combine with powerful searchlights temporarily installed on nearby buildings to form a dense artificial light source.
Pale white ash slowly falling from the sky, and the smell of burning gasoline and accelerant stimulates the sensitive nasal mucosa to secrete a large amount of fluid. The violent explosion completely reduced the collapsed building to rubble, the hard steel bars were all melted down, and the surface of the scattered concrete blocks had turned black. Occasionally, a few faint flames could be seen among the ruins, swaying back and forth in the wind, desperately unleashing the last of their strength.
Countless staggering figures slowly approached from outside the extinguished line of fire.
They are hunched on their backs and move slowly. Tilt your head and use your nostrils and ears to look for everything you can use as food.
Daytime battles have proven that bullets are not very lethal to the walking dead. Dozens of soldiers with fuel canisters on their backs stood in front, spewing flames at the approaching corpses. The dragons exploded the cars, tossing everything in the range into the air, tearing them apart in a circle of air, and the scattered metal sliced through any obstacle that dared to stand in its way...... When all the violent energy had completely calmed down from the euphoria, the scorched ground was littered with scattered pieces of minced flesh and blackened limbs.
The army and police have been arranging for the evacuation of citizens.
For a whole day, the dense flow of people from the center of the city showed no sign of abating, and the tall buildings in the distance seemed to be machines that could automatically create people, always spitting out the figures who hurriedly joined from the exit at the bottom.
Gu Kegang can't calculate how many stranded people are still in the city by simple addition and subtraction. He only knew that no matter how many people were evacuated within the allotted time, there would always be more citizens from all corners and become part of the fleeing army.
These people roam around the city, recklessly searching empty houses for valuables. Banks, shops, hospitals...... All possible harvests will be patronized. They break into other people's homes in a big way, and take whatever they like. Maybe it's out of inner madness! They tend to throw things like televisions and refrigerators from the rooftops of tall buildings, and howl like beasts at the sky as they sip looted alcoholic beverages amid the loud bangs of the ground and the debris that explodes.
There are no exact numbers to indicate how many of them there are, and Gu Kegang does not have the spare manpower to maintain order in the empty city. Fearing the destruction of their homes, many residents who had left the city fled and returned. They locked the doors of their dwellings and reinforced them with various materials, kitchen knives, sticks, sharpened steel bars...... Everything that could have been used as a weapon was put together, and the house, which had been vacant, was restored to its original state again.
The human mind is very strange. There is no particular law that brings all people's consciousness together. Everyone has a different choice when it comes to death. In their opinion, this may be the best way to survive for themselves.
New hordes of corpses have appeared in the streets.
It was a citizen who had been bitten by a walking corpse before, or had been killed.
The corpses all over the street invariably showed signs of resurrection.
They dragged their heavy bodies from their corners and slowly got up, staring blankly at this familiar and unfamiliar world. The dark red eyes scanned hungrily for everything they could use as food. Even, he grabbed the pieces of meat and limbs that had been cut off from his body nearby, and desperately stuffed them into his mouth and chewed them.
Millions of inhabitants.
Millions of hungry living corpses searching for food.
The decapitated corpses lay scattered in the empty streets. Dark red pus flowed from the cut in his neck, forming an irregular puddle of wet marks on the dry ground. The limbs that remained on the torso twitched unconsciously, the stained fingers trembled and stretched out to the shoulders, groping back and forth for the head that was no longer there, and the legs twisted and kicked back and forth under the control of the remaining nerves, as if trying to find some kind of reliable support to get back on his feet, but never to do so.
In the distance, more resurrected people rose from the rubble, swaying their bodies and slowly staggering towards the place with steps that could not keep their balance but not fall. The bubbled eyeballs filled with yellow-green rotten water release the desire and greed for fresh meat.
The army was completely defeated.
"We were scattered. All the armored units were killed, and the losses of the infantry regiment exceeded 80 percent. In that chaotic situation, it was simply impossible to gather troops. I don't know if you've ever been to the southern part of the city, which is a densely populated area and our main battlefield. Luckily, I boarded the last helicopter and escaped back to my out-of-town station. ”
Gu Kegang's mood and voice were very low: "Such an enemy has gone beyond the normal concept of confrontation. What we need now is not weapons, not reinforcements, but medicines that can make us immune to the virus. If even the most basic anti-infection cannot be achieved, then even the most powerful army will not be able to resist the attack of the virus after all. ”
Liu Tianming has been silent.
Gu Kegang was right.
In the face of the strong diffusion force of the virus, the weak human immune system is like tissue paper. In addition to watching himself turn into a cruel and murderous monster, he could only lie in a pool of blood and gasp in despair.
What can we do in the face of despair and fear?
Gu Kegang shifted his gaze to Liu Tianming.
He felt very puzzled, and said the question he had been trying to figure out: "Xiao Liu, why does your blood have an immune effect?" ”
Liu Tianming's voice was very flat: "You are wrong. That's not absolute immunity, it's just a temporary retardation effect on the virus. It's the equivalent of an antibody base implanted in your body. They reproduce, they expand. This is not immunity, but only a short-term containment as a last resort. ”
Gu Kegang understood what he meant: "So, how long can I live?" ”
"I don't know."
Liu Tianming's attitude was very serious: "A week, maybe ten days." "To find this site, please search for "6 Mao" or enter the URL:.