Chapter 162, What's in the Forest
After eating, the nearest small group of zombies was less than 10 kilometers away from us, and their team was a little stronger, and some scattered zombies were driven along the way and wrapped up in this team. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info And the zombie team at 6 o'clock has become larger, and the zombies from nearby villages and towns are constantly joining their team, and it is estimated that there will be at least a thousand of them when they reach our location.
After a few months of contact, we now know more about the habits of zombies.
Individual zombies are basically no threat to us now, and even if you don't have any weapons, you can at least turn around and run away. Zombies have poor mobility, after all, the limbs are relatively rigid, and the central nervous system will issue action instructions under the action of the virus, but this instruction in the neural circuit is half a beat slower than normal people. However, they are no longer as slow as they were at the beginning, and they will have an instinctive climbing motion when encountering obstacles. It looks clumsy, but it's scary, and if the obstacles are not set up scientifically, they can't stop them. However, the most terrifying thing about zombies is their tireless mobility, which can often make survivors who have no means of transportation despair, despite their top speed of only 3 kilometers per hour.
In fact, I think the tireless action of zombies is very unscientific, you must know that even the movement of the machine also needs energy, I have asked Lin Zhuoran many times this question, but he has no way to give me a clear answer, because the virus that caused this apocalyptic catastrophe itself cannot be explained by our existing scientific principles. The key is that this virus is still in continuous evolution, for example, after death, people will be decomposed and rotted by decomposing bacteria, but the virus hinders the activity of decomposing bacteria, and finally keratinizes the parts that once decayed the zombies, thus forming a kind of scale armor of different thicknesses. Of course, mutant zombies don't talk about it, each mutant zombie, including mutant creatures, is different, but the basic characteristics of mutant creatures also have a lot of similarities, that is, the skin is scaled in a large area, and some of the scale armor will be very thick, like the mutant boar king we encountered that time, the scale armor around its body can not be easily torn apart even if it is a 12.7 mm caliber heavy machine gun bullet, in addition, the limbs of mutant creatures, including the original palms and soles of the feet, will be alienated, and the strength and hardness of keratinization will be strengthened to become a sharp attack weapon.
The sense of smell of zombies is many times stronger than that of human hosts, and those zombies who come down from the highway are more than 20 kilometers away, and they come from farther away. Lin Zhuoran said that this is not only a matter of smell, but also hearing and touch and weak vision, including hormones, and even zombies have residual consciousness, in addition to the instinct of predation, they will also gather and follow, which is actually a conscious activity.
Lin Zhuoran has been silent about the treatment plan for the withdrawal of the "Ark Conference", and I have asked him more than once about this question, but he has not answered me clearly. As a biology professor, even if his major is not biopharmaceuticals or virology research, his understanding of this "Ark Conference" is much deeper than that of us laymen. He didn't explain anything more to me, but as far as I understand it, he spent a lot of time every day on some data analysis in the first few days after leaving the base. Remaining silent, perhaps because he did not get an answer that he agreed with from his scientific attitude, but he was unwilling to give up hope completely.
I don't know if Lin Zhuoran should join the team of those scientists and work with them to save the world. But sometimes I also feel that the world is what it is today because of the efforts of scientists.
The source of the virus is not clearly stated now, and first of all, the International Alliance of Homeland Medicine is the most suspicious. I'm not saying that they deliberately developed such a virus to destroy the world, I think even if there are one or two scientists who are so crazy and dehumanizing, it is impossible for all scientists to be like this. But the international alliance of home medicine has risen too fast in recent years, and I wonder if they will go too far ahead when they try to change the virus and use the virus to treat diseases, and as a result, they can control the rhythm so well that it gets out of control, and the virus changes in the other direction. That's how the movie "I Am Legend" was explained at the beginning.
Secondly, I think that the research of the military of various countries may also be the culprit, when science and wealth are connected, the consequence is the rapid development of our modern society, or that sentence, the gross domestic product of human society in the past 300 years has exceeded the previous 3,000 or even 30,000 years in geometric multiples. This is a great achievement of scientific and social progress. But what about when science and military dock? Before World War II, trains were steam, airplanes were propellers, and in the latter part of World War II, missiles appeared, jet planes appeared, and most importantly, nuclear bombs appeared. And then out of control, in today's world, any cutting-edge technology, the primary application is military, whether it is Mars exploration, or deep-sea exploration, its purpose is first of all military significance. There are also many countries that are secretly carrying out super soldier programs, and in addition to external equipment such as weapons and protective gear, they are constantly developing, and the exploration of the human body's own abilities has never stopped......
When technology, commercial profits, and the military are entangled, the self-destruction of human society is fundamentally unstoppable, if not the current virus catastrophe, it may be a nuclear war, or an intelligent mutiny, just like the "Terminator" series. The better ending is like in "Robot Wall-E", even if we can't live on Earth anymore, we still have the opportunity to move to space and come back hundreds of years later. But either one seems to tell us that the faster our modern civilization develops, the closer we are to destruction.
It's just that this catastrophe seems to have come a little too early, and I never thought about the end of the world before, because I thought it was all. In '99, I heard that someone sold all his possessions because the end came, and was ready to go crazy and then everyone finished together, but the end of the world did not come, and he was finished himself. In 2012, there was a similar news, and I laughed until my eggs hurt, if everyone is okay and you have nothing left, it will be the end of the world for you.
I've never believed in the end of the world, in fact, I do, but I've always thought that it would be a long time later, why would it be another one or two hundred years, and I thought that even if the earth exploded in one or two hundred years, what would it matter to me?
But the real end times are when people lose everything when they are defenseless.
The most terrible thing about this catastrophe is that it erupted almost simultaneously all over the world, and the entire human society was caught off guard, so we could not afford it. Now that a few months have passed, we have gradually learned to face death, to face despair, to face the impossibility of everything, and we have gradually become stronger, and this strength comes first and foremost from the heart. No matter where this disaster will take us, at least we will never give up easily, and even a small person like me will not give up, and this is the confidence that we will survive this disaster.
Now, there are thousands of zombies coming towards us all around, and they will be here in two or three hours, maybe sooner. If one or two zombie mutants pop up in the zombie team, the time will be greatly shortened.
But we still cook and eat according to the plan, our lunch is quite rich, there are fresh vegetables freshly picked from the field, there are canned meat products we carry, of course, this is not fresh enough, but we can't still drive a herd of cattle and sheep on the road, right? We even took turns taking a nap, but the two little Lori, who were less than five years old, refused to take a nap, but picked some wild flowers next to the vegetable patch to make a garland...... Even in the midst of such suffering, the child did not forget the beauty of this world. This is our biggest takeaway from this disaster.
Then we set off on time, and it was past noon, and we had to calculate the distance so that we could reach a relatively safe campsite. The road is not a one-day walk, and we are all used to suffering.
In front of us was a vast hilly area overgrown with weeds and shrubs, and the world was unusually desolate as far as the eye could see. Just as we were about to drive along a silent road through the hills into a larger wooded field, the rain stopped and the setting sun emerged from the clouds, casting a rainbow over the sky after the rain.
"It's a rainbow! The first time I saw a real rainbow! Liang Zhengzheng was very excited in the car, pointing to the rainbow outside the car window and repeatedly telling me that she was really the first time she had seen a real rainbow. Think about it, we have seen a lot of haze over the years, and we rarely even see a pure blue sky, so where does the rainbow come from? There was also a burst of gossip and excitement in the communication channel in the car, the oldest of these people was me, even I had never seen a rainbow, and they naturally hadn't seen it. But perhaps, in the future, our sky will be very blue, and we will not only see rainbows often, but we can also sit and watch the clouds roll up.
However, our good mood had to be put away after we entered the forest farm, what we learned before said that this is an artificial planting economic forest farm, are some tree species with short growth cycles and easy to grow, but after we entered the forest, we found that there was something different from what we thought - the trees in this forest are very tall, intertwined, dense branches and foliage even cover the sky above the road, no wonder the drone just now can't see what is in it. It's evening again, and the woods look a little eerie, like entering a dark night forest in a magic movie.
"You say, will we meet a group of Night Elves, or will we be the old demons of Black Mountain?" I saw that Liang Zhengzheng's delicate face was a little pale, and he was nervously looking at the big tree on the side of the road, and asked her casually. Liang Zhengzheng is not as lively as Lin Lu, just the two of us, sometimes we can't find something to say, and our age gap is too big, there are many times when we can't talk together, like I said the old demon of Montenegro, she asked me with a blank face: "What is the old demon of Montenegro?" ”
I think if the disaster really passes and we go back to our normal lives and get married, it may not be long before we get divorced. I won't talk about the difference in identity here, let's just talk about the difference in age. But when it really comes to that time, as she herself said casually, what happens on the spur of the moment does not mean that we have to be together. Now the little girls are very violent, but now we don't want to live together, we are, life and death depend on each other.
"What a generation gap." I couldn't explain to her what the old demon of Montenegro was, so I could only sigh and say, "What do you say is the easiest thing to appear in the barren mountains and wild mountains?" ”
Liang Zhengzheng glanced at me and said, "Pervert, pervert, but I already have a ...... by my side."
I poured, I said angrily: "Aren't you afraid of the lonely ghost?" In such an eerie forest, there may be vampires. Look at what's out your window? ”
Liang Zhengzheng grinned and said, "You can't scare me, besides, how handsome a vampire is, if I am bitten by a vampire, it will be more beautiful to become a vampire...... Ahhhh......h (To be continued.) )