Chapter 1: To Live or to Die
Late at night.
Sedum Community, the most luxurious villa community in City C, can live here, either rich or expensive.
Villa B-208, the house was dark, Xu Lin sat in the corner on the first floor of the villa, his arms clasped tightly on his knees, and his head buried in the crook of his arms.
This villa is not his, three days ago, when he entered this villa, he found that the original owner of the house died in the bathroom on the second floor, in order to prevent the corpse from mutating, Xu Lin had already disposed of the corpse.
"Damn! Why doesn't the shelter want me! ”
Xu Lin had forgotten that this was the first refuge he had contacted by radio, and although the other party said it politely, it did not mean that it was good news.
"I'm sorry, Mr. Xu Lin, your physical fitness does not meet the requirements of our shelter, and you don't have special skills in any field, you also know how tight the survival resources are now, I'm sorry, our shelter can't accept you."
Xu Lin raised his buried head, his eyes were already bloodshot, the low roar of those things outside the door made him not have a good rest for many days, and the replies from a dozen shelters made him feel even more desperate.
Xu Lin glanced at the food and water placed around him, and by now, he only had three or four biscuits and half a bottle of mineral water left.
I don't know why, Xu Lin remembered the scene when he found the body in the bathroom on the second floor.
It was a middle-aged man in his thirties, with a straight suit and shiny leather shoes, lying quietly on the pale blue printed tile floor.
Obviously, in order to get out of this terrible world with dignity, he tried to clean himself up beforehand.
Even if the blood that was already a little blackened still stained the clothes under him, and the stench attracted a large number of flies, but he was already a relatively decent death that Xu Lin had seen.
Around him, there were all kinds of photos, there were several wedding photos in frames, many photos of a boy from birth to five or six years old, a photo of a family when they were on a trip, and in his hand, he also held a photo.
He was holding his elegant wife with one hand, and a boy about the same age as Xu Lin's daughter Meng Meng was smiling brightly in front of them.
It can be seen that this was once a happy family with no worries about food and clothing.
Xu Lin didn't know him, but being able to afford a house here shows that his identity is by no means ordinary.
Regardless of how he amassed this wealth during his lifetime, in this photo, he is just a happy husband, a loving father.
"Our children are about the same age, let's hope they're all safe."
Xu Lin's voice was a little weak, and his eyes were a little confused.
Four months have passed, people have gone from waiting with hope at the beginning to despairing from physical and mental exhaustion, Xu Lin has seen too many scenes from one house to another.
In four months, his body and mind had exceeded the limit of what he could bear, and if it weren't for the fact that he still had something in his heart to support him, he would have thought about ending his life.
No one wants to be torn apart by the things wandering outside the door and brutally eaten, but the bad thing is that the more fearful it is, the more uncontrollable it is, Xu Lin repeatedly imagined such a scene in his mind.
It does take courage to end one's own life, but now, to live, it takes more perseverance.
Xu Lin thought about the scene four months ago, when the virus had just spread to City C.
"Women and children on the plane!" Heavily armed armies are doing their best to maintain the chaotic crowd.
"Mengmeng, quick, get on the plane with your mother!" Xu Lin used all his strength to squeeze through the crowd around him and pushed his wife and daughter onto the plane.
"Nope! Xu Lin! If we want to go, we will walk together, and if we want to die as a family, we will die together! His wife, Xia Qing, seemed uncooperative, crying heartbreakingly.
"Daddy, Daddy, let's go together!" The five-year-old cute little hand tightly grasped Xu Lin's hand.
"Xia Qing, listen, for the sake of cuteness, you have to be strong!" Xu Lin roared at Xia Qing.
Xia Qing's tears had already broken the embankment, but Xu Lin's words made her grasp Xu Lin's hand gradually let go, and she just shook her head desperately.
Xu Linduo wanted to hug his wife and daughter tightly, but now, he could only push them away desperately.
"Are you going to go or not!" The PLA soldier picked up a man who was trying to leave with his family and yelled at Xu Lin.
"Go, go, go!" Seeing the soldier's urging, Xu Lin couldn't care so much, and broke Mengmeng's little hand fiercely, but he never knew that Mengmeng's hand was already so powerful.
"Dad, Dad, you said you would protect Meng Meng forever! Father! Don't be cute. Meng Meng cried even more fiercely.
Seeing Mengmeng struggling desperately on Xia Qing's shoulder, Xu Lin's heart was like a knife, but he could only close his eyes.
The military transport plane was already crowded with women and children, and the rear door was finally slowly rising.
At the moment when the hatch was completely closed, Xu Lin heard Meng Meng's hoarse cry.
"Daddy! We must live, we all have to live, and we must come to find Meng Meng in the future! ”
Xu Lin's eyes were a little blurry, and the military said that they would move everyone to a safe place, but of course the man must have the consciousness of being transferred in the end.
Reports from other regions have shown the terrible speed of the spread of the virus.
He also wanted to live, but to be honest, he wasn't sure if he could live.
"Mengmeng, Dad will live! You have to listen to your mother! Xu Lin shouted towards the transport plane, his previous thoughts naturally couldn't be told to the child, he wanted to give Mengmeng confidence.
"Good! Don't lie to Moe Moe! ”
The hatch closed, and Meng Meng's last words came. The planes also quickly took off directly in the increasingly chaotic square.
"I try." In the last sentence, Xu Lin's voice was very low, not only to answer Mengmeng, but also to tell himself to live strongly.
There are still thousands of people waiting to be evacuated, and there are cries and screams of women and children everywhere.
Looking at the people around him who didn't board the plane, Xu Lin relied on his youth and strength, and he didn't know how many people had squeezed through just now.
Unfortunately, it's not time to wait in line at the bank.
"I'm sorry." Xu Lin said in a very low voice.
At times like these, even if you were once a good person, you can't be courteous.
Soon after, several more transport planes took off, and I don't know how many families experienced life and death separation.
"At least we're luckier than the ones who didn't leave." Xu Lin looked up at the camouflage green helicopter that took off and muttered to himself sentimentally.
"Look, what's that!" Someone in the crowd suddenly shouted.
Xu Lin followed the sound and looked, and a group of people over there were looking up at a certain direction in the sky, and the expression on their faces was extremely solemn.
Xu Lin also looked in that direction, he saw that thing at a glance, and suddenly, the heart he had just put down suddenly hung in his throat.
Due to the uncertain distance, Xu Lin couldn't estimate how big this thing was, but one thing was for sure, this guy was huge.
In a blink of an eye, it had already flown over the square, the sky suddenly darkened, it covered the entire sky, roughly estimated, not counting the thick tail, its body length reached at least 100 meters, and the wingspan of a pair of purple-red flesh wings was even more exaggerated, at least twice the length of the body.
At this time, Xu Lin finally saw the appearance of this creature clearly, and he would never forget it for the rest of his life.
The protruding face is somewhat like some kind of ugly fish in the deep sea, and the most conspicuous thing on the face is the two rows of huge, sharp teeth, no lips, only dark red gum flesh, a pair of gray-black eyes almost the size of several adults, and a spike more than ten meters long pierced from the forehead.
Suddenly, the huge creature let out a sharp chirp, the cry was piercing, Xu Lin felt that his eardrums were about to burst, and quickly covered his ears with his hands.
The glass windows of the surrounding shops shattered.
Just as the ground was in a mess because of this scream, the long thorn on the guy's forehead had already pierced a plane that had just taken off.
"No!" Someone saw this scene and let out a heart-rending cry, it seems that there should be his family on that plane.
The others didn't have time to sympathize with others and fled in all directions.
"What kind of monster is this!"
"Why are there still these things in the sky, what about the planes before that!"
Soon, everyone's hearts hung in the air.
In the distance, more than a dozen black-purple figures appeared, which looked similar to the previous one, but the body size was slightly different, and the one that swept the ground just now could only be regarded as a medium size.
"They're chasing the plane! There are so many! ”
"No!" A man gave up on running away, put his head in his hands, and fell to his knees crying bitterly.
The people on the ground had seen the creature's exaggerated speed before, and when it accelerated, it swooped in from high in the air in the blink of an eye, and it was impossible for the transports to escape.
Thinking back to reality, in the villa, Xu Lin felt a pang of colic in his heart.
"Xia Qing, Meng Meng, we must live, we all have to live!" Xu Lin whispered.