Chapter 1: The End of the World?
In Shanghai in August, the weather was unusually not very hot, and the sky was gloomy, Luo Cannon used a telescope to observe the surrounding situation, there was no one on the streets of the city, and occasionally passed by a police car still sounding a curfew. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info the upstairs across the road, and you can faintly see a few figures watching from the window. All the small shops downstairs have closed their roller shutters, and they are not open at all. This is the current Shanghai, Luo Dacang lives in the Pudong New Area of Shanghai, an old-fashioned residential building, and the windows along the street show Luo Dacang the chaos of the past few days.
The city has been under curfew for three days, and the three days have made life like a year for almost everyone, but that doesn't include Luo Cannon, who has been playing the game for two and a half days in those three days. Online gaming is hopeless, because all networks have been disrupted. Out of fear, Luo Cannon was playing the new Resident Evil 5, and when he got up in the morning, he had just cleared the level, and he stood up excitedly and tired to wash and sleep, but he suddenly heard a low roar from the roommate next to him, like the cry of some kind of beast, and like the low roar of a leopard or lion before attacking the target.
The house is a standard one-bedroom design, with a kitchen and bathroom, and a house of only thirty or forty square meters costs 2,000 a month, and the rent in Shanghai is really expensive. Luo Dacang lives in the hall, and the roommate lives in a separate bedroom, and the two of them are comfortable in one room, but the roommate must pass by Luo Dacan's room when he goes out.
Luo Cannon gently pushed open the door of the roommate that was not closed tightly, the roommate was lying on the bed, with his back outward, facing inward, and made that strange sound from time to time, Luo Cannon walked to the bed, shook his shoulder and asked, "Is the fever better?" Why are you confused, the net learning dog barks? ”
As soon as Luo Dacang finished speaking, his roommate, who was suddenly lying on the bed, turned over and bit Luo Dacang with a big mouth. Luo Cannon has been practicing martial arts all year round, and his reaction speed is faster than that of ordinary people, and he doesn't have a good impression of this roommate, and when he saw the other party biting him, his right hand, which had not been withdrawn, came to his head with a palm. The crazy roommate was suddenly beaten and lay back on the bed. But he didn't give up, but quickly pounced sideways again, and his mouth kept growling. Luo Cannon is not stupid, he saw the other party's blood-red eyes and realized that something was wrong. Why does this situation look so much like the zombies in the Resident Evil you just played? In line with the principle of preferring to kill mistakes and not letting go, Luo Cannon stopped at his right hand on his waist, retracted violently, and quickly made up a palm on his roommate's head with a move, and he used almost all his strength in this palm, and did not reserve it at all. This time, the roommate obediently lay on the bed again, but this time he was not so lucky, even his head was bent backwards by Luo Cannon, and his cervical vertebrae were obviously broken.
There was a 'person' tied to the bed in the room. Maybe it should be called a zombie, that is, Luo Cannon's roommate, this is Luo Cannon's understanding, for a modern urban youth, zombies are not strangers, there are no less than dozens of movies about zombies, and there are dozens of games. But what everyone didn't expect was that the situation in the movie really became a reality. His roommate was fine a day ago, but last night he had a high fever. Luo Cannon is a fairly normal YY young man, when he saw his roommate's bloodshot eyes and rapidly growing nails, he immediately thought of the zombie in the movie, although his neck was broken, but his roommate was still letting out that low roar. Luo Cannon still fantasized that this was just a joke he played with himself, but until tonight, Luo Cannon was completely disappointed, and in the end, Luo Cannon took out two iron pickaxes and nailed them to his roommate's hard skull.
After carefully thinking about the events of the past few days, Luo Dacang found that something was wrong. Two days ago, there were people who came to treat the infected, but fortunately there were no infected people in the entire old building. However, from morning to noon today, only three propaganda police cars passed on the road, and there was only one in a few minutes yesterday. Today, there are only three.
Luo Dacang is going to go out tonight, because he must go home, and he still has his wife and elderly parents at home. These make this wanderer who works outside the home very can't let go, and I don't know what the situation at home is now. This is going to tell you what happened.
Fifteen days ago, the major media announced the discovery of a comet flying rapidly towards the Earth, which is crashing into the Earth's orbit at an astonishing speed, with a diameter of about several hundred kilometers. Immediately, every country around the world made a response plan. Countries that have the ability to launch satellites are rapidly modifying their rockets in order to launch nuclear bombs to blow up comets.
I remember that there is a movie called the Great Collision of Heaven and Earth, and the scene in it is almost the same as now, the difference is that no country has the strength to make a hole in the comet, all that can be done is to launch a nuclear bomb to blow up the comet, and if one does not work, there will be many. The United States launched 64 interstellar rockets carrying trillions of nuclear bombs to break out of the atmosphere, Russia launched more than 50, China launched more than 20, and Britain launched 15. In total, more than a hundred nuclear bombs went straight to the comet's flight trajectory, of which more than a dozen were neutron bombs with a yield of 50 million alone. Finally, after dozens of explosions in a row, the huge comet was blasted into 'slag'. However, the biggest 'slag' in it is still several kilometers wide. Almost all the rocket thrusters in the world that can fly out of the atmosphere have been launched, and there are no longer any uses, and temporary manufacturing has of course become a luxury.
Ten days ago, all the soldiers of the reserve forces in the country returned to their original units to report. The whole country went on orange alert.
Five days ago, curfews were imposed in all major cities in the country.
Four days ago, a curfew was imposed in all cities in the country, and martial law was imposed in major cities.
Three days ago, curfews were imposed in more than 80 percent of the world's countries, and almost all bomb shelters and shelters were crammed with people, but that was only a drop in the bucket. Less than 5 per cent of people are able to get into bomb shelters, and most of them are placed at home. Only high-ranking government officials and so-called tech workers have the opportunity to experience what it feels like to be safe. For a small citizen like Luo Cannon, he can only wait at home to die.
In the early hours of the morning three days ago, a meteor appeared in the sky, which is fragments of a comet flying into the atmosphere. Almost all the anti-aircraft missiles and anti-aircraft artillery that could be used by various countries were dispatched, and Shanghai, which is the most important city, has gathered most of the air defense forces in the eastern half. It has to be said that the state apparatus is powerful, and under the interception of intensive artillery fire and anti-aircraft missiles, the largest meteorite falling in Shanghai is no more than the size of a fist, and the greatest power is to smash a few cars, which is no different from a big bomb. The citizens of Shanghai are still relatively obedient, and even if they are smashed, they just stay at home and wait for rescue, so there is no major chaos in the order of the city, of course, this has a lot to do with the soldiers with loaded guns on the streets.
Although the meteor shower did not cause much damage to this international metropolis, all communication was almost completely stopped, and the electromagnetic interference caused by the meteor made all mobile phones unable to communicate normally, and people had to use the most primitive line communication to communicate. During this period, Luo Cannon called home, and the situation at home did not worry him too much, his father was a retired worker, but because of the long-term practice of martial arts, he accepted a lot of apprentices, several of whom were still some power, and his father took his mother and Luo Cannon's wife to give birth to hide in the city's air-raid shelter, and was assigned to a separate room, which made Luo Cannon feel a lot more relieved.
Two days later, even the wired phone could not be connected, probably the main line was blown off by a meteor. Luo Cannon began to worry about the situation at home again, especially on the third day, his roommate suddenly became a so-called zombie, and Luo Cannon suddenly became confused. His only belief now is to go home.
But before leaving, you still have to prepare well, Luo Cannon analyzed several possibilities for the roommate to become a zombie, and finally came to the conclusion that the roommate became a zombie after drinking the water flowing from the tap water, that is to say, the city's water supply system has been polluted, so the zombies in the city are not ordinary, I'm afraid that after today, the city will be completely chaotic.
Army? Luo Cannon didn't think that with those hundreds of thousands of troops, he could stop this big city of more than 30 million people, and zombies would not be afraid of guns. Even if only half of the population is infected, an army of hundreds of thousands may not be able to control the city. The priority now is to escape from the city's cage.
First of all, Luo Dacang did a few necessary things, prepared dry food, and boiled all the thirty or so eggs stored in the cupboard. Of course, bottled pure water is used, because the water quality in Shanghai makes Luo Dacang, a big man in Shandong, have diarrhea every time he drinks it, so he has four boxes of pure water at home. This is also the reason why he was able to survive being infected, in the past three days, in addition to playing games, he has slept, and has not washed his face and bathed, which is another reason to avoid being infected, and even eating is instant noodles.
Mix all the flour with purified water, bake it into flatbreads, and cut the remaining bacon into strips, steam it to dry, and roll it in flatbreads. A piece of cake wrapped in a plastic bag, which was enough to wrap more than 50 cakes, and there was no piece of 30 catties of bacon just bought. Originally, this big bacon ham was intended to be a gift to the boss, but now the boss is afraid that it will be more auspicious, so let's enjoy it yourself.
Unlike Luo Dacang, a half-otaku, his roommate is a travel buddy and loves to travel when he has nothing to do. The huge military backpack is just used to carry things, field folding tents, waterproof field hiking clothes, hiking boots, and the equipment is very complete. There are even two pickaxes, but they were nailed to his roommate's head by Luo's cannon, which can be regarded as fulfilling one of his wishes, 'I have to die with these two high-level pickaxes'.
Because the family got the news of the curfew two days ago, they prepared a lot of compressed biscuits and instant noodles, which had to be loaded.
I've watched a lot of post-apocalyptic novels and movies, and Luo Cannon knows that in this world now, there are only two things that are the most precious, one is weapons, and the other is food and water.
After packing up the equipment and food, Luo Cannon quietly touched the door, and there was no sound in the quiet corridor. There seems to be no zombies in the corridor, and the door was gently opened, because it is a house in the old city, and the residents on this upstairs have not installed an anti-theft door, only a large anti-theft door is installed downstairs.
Inspected from the first floor to the fifth floor, and all the houses closed their doors tightly, only from a house upstairs heard a creaking sound of gnawing bones, Luo Cannon didn't need to think about it to know what the sound was, and gently did not alarm it. returned to the second floor, opposite lived a bachelor Brother Liu, Luo Cannon was very familiar with him, because both of them drank two sips, so they often drank together in the middle of the night. Pulling out the spare key from the corner of the door, Luo Cannon gently pushed open the door on the other side. With a prepared weapon in his hand. It's a mop lever with a sharp tip sharpened with a kitchen knife. The house was very messy, and it seemed that Brother Liu was also infected, and he was thinking about it, when a figure suddenly rushed out of the bedroom and rushed straight to Luo Cannon.