Chapter 22: The Haze
The villa has three floors, and on the ground floor there is a large dining room with tables and tables that can accommodate up to 30 people. Not long after Gou Ke sat down, dinner came up.
Dinner was oddly matched, a few steamed potatoes, a glass of red wine, and a small plate of Lao Gan Ma. Gou Ke didn't like the sour taste of red wine, so he asked to replace the red wine with water. Gou Cao, who didn't like to drink before the end of the world, had to drink some a lot of the time, and after the end of the world, Gou Cao didn't plan to wronged himself in this regard.
The meal overall felt good. I don't know if it's because the tableware will be served, or if the old godmother is originally delicious with everything, or if she is simply harsh and hungry now.
It's a pity that the food is not stable. The tall, lanky man on the other side of the table gave him a not-so-friendly look from time to time. Of course, Gou Cao understands what is going on, Gou Cao first heroically saved the United States, and then got out of danger with Bai Yutian, which is enough to lay the foundation of the relationship. On the way back, I stayed alone with Bai Yutian for so long, if Gou Cao used a little more routines......
If Gou Ke is worshipping Yutian and his husband, he will also wonder if something has happened to him and Baiyutian.
However, Gou Ke is really a genuine gentleman. The life and death of worshipping Yutian on the wanderer depends on Gou Cao, if Gou Cao showed favor to her at that time, she obviously had no room to refuse. But he is ashamed to do this kind of thing that takes advantage of others.
Maybe she noticed something, and after a while, Bai Yutian pulled her husband out. When he returned, the unfriendly and suspicious look in his eyes was gone. This woman really has some means. Try not to provoke her in the future, Gou thought to himself.
After a small episode, Gou Ke successfully maintained a relatively elegant taste and finished his dinner.
I have to say that the people here are quite educated, unlike some local nouveau riche bosses who start to dislike others when they see that they don't drink, and they don't care whether others are hungry or not, they call them brothers and sisters before they start, and water the table with saliva first. Instead, he politely waited until he had finished eating before starting to talk.
During the conversation, Gou Cao learned that the owner of this villa had been bitten to death by the zombies turned into by the servants. Before the catastrophe began, a banquet was being prepared here, so the food was quite sufficient, and the original owner was a drinker, so he had enough wine in the cellar in the basement to drink for four or five years.
Red wine can be used to improve lives or to distill high-strength alcohol to make homemade Molotov cocktails. The surface tissue of the corpse will have different dehydration waxing phenomena of CD according to the time experienced after zombieization. So when dealing with zombies, the fire offensive is easy to be effective.
And most of these people gathered from the nearby rich area after the zombieization was over, led by Hao Aiguo, the middle-aged man who had been harsh with a crossbow. The only resident of the ordinary apartment is the middle-aged Su Cuiqin.
Wealthy areas have a low population density, mostly villas and ground-floor apartments, and it is easier to defend when zombies attack, and it is safer to go out to find resources.
The population density of ordinary residential areas is high, and although the house has an anti-theft door to prevent zombies from entering, once the resources in the house are exhausted, when the whole building is full of zombies, it is very dangerous to go out. As a result, the survival rate of the rich is much higher than that of the poor. Sometimes in the face of death, the rich and the poor are also unequal.
"It's been two months since the zombie phenomenon stopped," Gou Cao threw out his own questions after a polite greeting and mutual introduction. "But the zombies outside show no signs of abating. As far as I know, zombies only have humans or their dead counterparts on their diets, so they theoretically have a scarce source of food. ”
"Even if zombies can last longer than humans when they are hungry. But after two months, if they still follow the law of conservation of energy, the number should be reduced a little now. Gou Cao thought that there was little hope that they knew, but he still asked tentatively, "Do any of you know what's going on?" ”
"But the number of zombies has not decreased compared to two months ago, but has an increasing trend." According to Hao Aiguo, this person is weak and frail, and is not suitable for going out to collect, but he is proficient in agronomy, so he was left in the villa to grow potatoes. As a result, it didn't take long for him to start researching zombies. "I was also confused about this, so I took the time to do some experiments."
"Regarding the zombie test, some people objected, saying that it was not safe, but I felt that what Xiao He did was necessary for the sake of long-term consideration, so I suppressed the objection" Seeing that Gou Cao bypassed himself and had a direct dialogue with the people under his leadership, Hao Aiguo interjected at the right time.
On the one hand, he vaguely declared his status as a de facto dictator here, and on the other hand, he also showed his foresight, and at the same time co-opted He Hehe, a key talent, and Gou Cao, an outsider with strong force, in disguise. And the person who opposes the study of zombies is afraid that he doesn't have a good relationship with him, so he will be pulled out as a target at this time.
"Mr. Hao is far-sighted, after all, everyone's biggest enemy now is zombies, and knowing oneself and knowing that the other is invincible." Seeing what kind of road this old fox was taking, Gou Cao immediately slapped him in the face, and then logically pulled the topic back: "I don't know what the results of the zombie test are?" ”
Hao Aiguo, who had secretly won a victory, looked at He Hehe with a smile and asked him to continue.
He He nodded and said, "At first, I closed a zombie in an empty room with a soundproof mezzanine in the basement, just turned it off, and then used a camera to observe. ”
"At first, he was just like an ordinary zombie, active during the day, and went into a dormant state at night, and then after a week or so, the zombie fell into a state of hibernation, not moving day and night, and only re-active after a loud sound." He Hehe pushed his glasses and continued: "After repeating the awakening test many times, after about a month, the zombie died completely."
"As a control test, the zombies locked up in another soundproof room did not wake up after entering a long-term dormant state, and the result was that their vital signs have been maintained until now." He Hehe said.
"So zombies still obey the conservation of energy, but they can hibernate to save energy, and only some of them have been maintained until now, is that right?" After listening to this, Gou Ke continued to ask.
"At first, I confirmed that it was so, until later I got another live zombie," He Hehe's expression suddenly became serious.