Chapter 3: The Beginning

Deng Mingchang, male, Chinese-American, internationally renowned biologist, virologist, biogeneticist, traditional Chinese medicine scientist, currently the chairman of the Global Virus Prevention and Control Department, the leader of the genetic project team, participated in a number of major scientific research projects...... Wait a minute. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info

The above biographical information is publicly available in the encyclopedia, and his personal relationships are also listed, such as two friends partnering Tena and Rooney. Ben is a well-known scientist.

Xu Shenzhou clicked on his friend link on this English-language search website, and immediately jumped to some related news reports, which shocked him.

At 19 o'clock in the evening of September 23, North American time, Dr. Tena, an internationally renowned biologist, was killed in a terrorist attack at his home.

At 21 o'clock on the evening of the 23rd, the building of the Global Virus Prevention and Control Center was attacked by a terrorist bombing, killing 8 people and missing 3 people.

News at 22 o'clock on the 23rd, a number of traffic accidents occurred on the street, and a fire broke out in a private house in a local suburban town at around 23 o'clock, which was an experimental explosion accident, and there were no casualties.

In the early morning of the 24th in North America, after a large laboratory in California, North America, was attacked, a huge explosion and fire accident occurred. Ben's whereabouts are unknown.

Seeing the news of these terrorist attacks, Xu Shenzhou's heart was cold.

These events occurred during the period of time when he encountered a game bug, Dr. Deng appeared and tricked him into accepting the other party's gift, and his body could not bear the inhuman pain and fell into a coma.

Since these news are true, then what happened to him is also true, and Dr. Deng should not be alarmist when he told him that the end of the world is coming.

Xu Shenzhou believes that such a scientist should not pay the price of his life to pass on an unsubstantiated rumor to him.

But if he believes that the end will come, will others believe?

So, Xu Shenzhou searched for content about the coming of the end on the Internet, and found that it was all outdated content such as the Thousand Happy Year or the 2012 Doomsday Theory, which was a scene of singing and dancing.

Recently, there have been no major paranormal and celestial anomalies or catastrophic accidents around the world, at most there have been a few terrorist attacks and plane crashes, which have not attracted national attention.

It is not caused by natural disasters, it is very likely that it is caused by man-made disasters.

As for where the outbreak began, Xu Shenzhou did not know, and Dr. Deng did not give any explanation.

But in that real dream of the coming of the apocalypse, the blue-skinned mutants who appeared in it, as well as the fierce and brutal monsters that feed on human flesh and blood, are mostly related to animal infection with viruses, and how the hideous and terrifying blue-skinned mutants were formed is still a question.

Thinking of the cruel scenes experienced by his parents and relatives in his dream, Xu Shenzhou's sense of urgency in his heart became even stronger.

So Xu Shenzhou picked up his backpack, packed some clothes, quietly brought the tens of thousands of cash collected from the Internet café, and went to his uncle's room to get the key to the pickup truck and left the Internet café.

The wind outside suddenly blew stronger and stronger, rolling up the long skirts of many shopping beauties, and the air was filled with a dampness, and the rolling dark clouds brought thunder, as if it was going to rain.

Such thunderstorms are common, but Xu Shenzhou always feels that there is an uneasiness spreading in his heart.

There are bank ATMs near the pedestrian street, Xu Shenzhou ran a few houses, took out all the deposits in the card, and started a crazy purchase.

Mainly food and water, as well as the necessary tools for survival in the wild, it is estimated that it is too late to order imitation firearms for self-defense from the Internet, so Xu Shenzhou bought more knives and crossbows, and specially purchased two thick national atlases from bookstores, as well as world tourism atlases.

After spending all the cash on his body and stuffing the back bucket and trunk of the pickup truck to the brim, Xu Shenzhou quickly drove out of the city and went to Xiangshan Town, forty kilometers away.

Xu Shenzhou's deceased grandparents are in Xiangshan Town, although Xu Shenzhou has never been back for nearly ten years, but he often went to play when he was a child, and Xu Shenzhou is still familiar with the environment there.

Mainly behind Xiangshan Town is a stone mountain, vegetation and animals are scarce, bare, relatively remote, sparsely populated, there are several abandoned stone mines, once the apocalyptic crisis comes, Xiangshan is a better remote place.

As the car drove on the road, Xu Shenzhou would accidentally find that there were rotting carcasses of wild dogs and animals abandoned in the roadside trench and no one was disposing of there, and from time to time there would be ambulances to and from the city, which could not help but add to the gloom in his heart.

Remembering that his parents were still out of town, he didn't want anything to happen to his parents and family, so he had to think of letting them rush back to stay with him to prepare.

So he picked up his mobile phone and called his parents who were working in other places, Xu Shenzhou did not tell them that the end would come, he knew that his parents would not believe it, and would only think that he was telling a joke.

Therefore, Xu Shenzhou lied that he was driving outside and killed someone in a hit-and-run, and he needed them to rush back to help deal with the matter.

Sure enough, the parents who received the call panicked when they heard that Xu Shenzhou actually hit and killed someone and hit and run.

After reprimanding him a few words, his father said that they would rush back immediately, and asked Xu Shenzhou to surrender immediately.

Although he lied and took advantage of his parents' love for him to trick them back, this is a white lie that cannot be helped, Xu Shenzhou only hopes that his parents will return safely, and believes that after the disaster, they will understand his son's painstaking efforts.

As for his uncle Zhang Xuejun, Xu Shenzhou called him after arriving at the abandoned mine behind Xiangshan Town, and explained the direction of escape.

The uncle was in the city, and when he heard that his nephew had killed someone and escaped, Zhang Xuejun did not panic, and after asking him where the accident occurred, he rushed to the place where the accident occurred with money.

The place Xu Shenzhou said was near Xiangshan Town, far away, and it would take some time for his uncle to come on the way, so he called his aunt Lu Chunyang again, saying that his uncle had an accident outside and asked her to come over quickly.

In this way, after getting a few words, the aunt who was doing beauty care forgot to call her uncle in a panic to verify whether this was a lie, so she directly drove her Beetle and hurried to the place Xu Shenzhou said.

As for the cousin Zhang Xinran, who went to college in other places, his cousin Xu Shenxing, who was in business, and his cousin Xu Shenxiang, who worked in the government, were all shrewd and wise people, Xu Shenzhou couldn't use such a method to trick them, but just sent them a private message, saying that there would be a major disaster in the near future, and asked them to prepare early, and once the disaster came, let them leave the city and rush to the remote place on the mountain.

Ignoring the text message from his cousin who didn't believe him and teasing him that he was telling jokes, and ignoring his cousin's reply to his text message of severely reprimanding him not to spread rumors and make trouble, Xu Shenzhou continued to text.

He feels that no matter whether others believe it or not, those classmates and friends who have a good relationship with him, he will send a text message to remind them to be on guard and fulfill their intentions as good friends.

Obviously, since Xu Shenzhou sent a group letter, there have been no waves in his friend group and classmates, and most people don't believe Xu Shenzhou's warning, they will only think it is a boring joke, and quickly chatter about other trivial matters, ignoring this matter.

After calling for so long and sending a lot of messages on the Internet, Xu Shenzhou's mobile phone soon ran out of battery.

He threw away his phone, found a sturdy stone house in an abandoned mine, and moved the supplies in the pickup truck.

Not far away, there is a mine cave that has not collapsed and looks very solid, Xu Shenzhou went in to observe, and saw that the mine is quite safe, and there are several forks in the passage inside, which is convenient for hiding extremely important materials such as food and water.

When danger comes, the mine is a good place to hide, for the sake of safety, to avoid the collapse of this abandoned mine, Xu Shenzhou is ready to move stones to reinforce, and at the same time, the nearby periphery can also do some protective measures, anyway, there are many stones around this waste mine.

However, to Xu Shenzhou's surprise, when he was carrying stones, he found that his strength had increased, he used to feel difficult to move seventy-eight catties of things, but now it is very easy to move a hundred or ten catties of boulders.

Recently, he has been playing games and becoming an otaku, and he hasn't exercised very often, how can such a significant physical change occur?

Under the question, Xu Shenzhou couldn't help but think of everything that happened in the afternoon, when his body was like being washed and cut off, it was like being covered with impurities and dirt discharged from his pores, could it be that Dr. Deng did something on him to help him strengthen his body?

Moreover, Xu Shenzhou also found that when he was thinking about some things, his thinking was unprecedentedly clear, and even some knowledge systems that he had not been exposed to before were also filled in his mind, as if someone had forcibly stuffed a hard disk in his brain that stored all kinds of knowledge and materials.

Throwing away these doubts, Xu Shenzhou spent more than two hours to set up the mine, hid the grain and water in a hidden location, and even transformed a small warehouse inside to facilitate the storage of materials in the future.

At this time, it was already eight o'clock in the evening, and the thunderstorm had stopped, but there was a smell of sea in the air, which made Xu Shenzhou very uncomfortable.

For such a long time, even if there is a traffic jam on the road, my uncle should be able to rush over, but now there is no movement near the mine, and the silence is a little scary.

The mobile phone was also out of battery, and I don't know where my parents arrived, which made Xu Shenzhou a little restless.

Looking down from the mountainside, the mountain town is brightly lit, even in the distant urban area, there are neon lights flashing, and everything still seems peaceful and peaceful.

However, the urgency in his heart became stronger and stronger, and Xu Shenzhou decided to go to Xiangshan Town to see the situation first.

Grab your knives and crossbows, and start your pickup truck and drive out of the mine.

However, after getting on the national highway, I hadn't gone far, and suddenly the headlights in front of me were densely arranged, and several SWAT patrol cars opened the way, and passing vehicles stopped to give way.

When Xu Shenzhou stopped the car, he saw rows of military trucks and armored vehicles driving quickly, and he was keenly aware of the solemn expressions on the faces of the officers on the military vehicles, and the soldiers were also fully armed and ready for battle.

After waiting for about ten minutes, the armored vehicles all passed, and it was estimated that there was a regiment of troops.

The direction in which these troops went was the Ningcheng urban area, which made Xu Shenzhou more and more uneasy.

And when he drove to Xiangshan Town, he saw that there was still an armored car and a few soldiers from a squad left in the town, and some people in the town gathered in front of the cordon, looking at several soldiers and pointing at the martial law health center.

The road was blocked by the townspeople, Xu Shenzhou got out of the car and asked an old man, who told him that the town had just been bitten to death by a group of wild dogs from nowhere, and six of them were bitten, but before the six people ran to the health center to get the rabies vaccine, three people died one after another.

Da-da-da-da!

At that moment, gunshots were heard nearby, as well as in the health center.

When the two soldiers ran out quickly, they were followed by a man who was already dead and bloody, as if something was squirming in his body, and one soldier threw a grenade into it with horror on his face, and then exploded, blowing it apart and causing a crowd to scream.

Seeing this scene, Xu Shenzhou's heart shook violently, and the disaster began.