Chapter 18: The First Sight of Ashes and Deaths
"Hold it!" Cao Bing picked up the hammer and smashed it into the zombie's arm deep into the house, with a muffled sound, the arm was not broken, and he couldn't help scratching his head. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
"It's so sturdy!" Cao Bing rubbed his fists and smashed the hammer into his arm again.
With a crisp sound, the rotting arm was smashed by the hammer, the bones were exposed, and the rotten palm drooped and shook back and forth.
Li Bai took a closer look at the exposed bones and found something unusual, the zombies he met on weekdays, the bones were all white, but this one was gray.
Li Bai and Cao Bing exchanged glances.
His hand was weak, and seeing that his arm was about to retract, he hurriedly grabbed the black thorn, pierced the black thorn into his ankle, and with a strong side, the rotten palm fell into the house, it stretched out a few times strangely, and it did not move, and the broken wrist immediately retracted.
Li Bai looked through the hole in the wooden board and found the zombie with a broken palm, it was taller than the zombies around him, and it was still hateful, with rotten flesh and bursting blood vessels.
It slammed its body against the wall, and pulled at the planks with its intact and mutilated arms.
Li Bai lifted the black thorn, aimed at the severed head of the severed palm mourner through the hole, and tried several times, either the severed palm mourning was off, or the severed palm mourning was squeezed out of sight by other zombies.
The zombies that were eating the inhabitants around heard the noise and swarmed in, countless fingers reaching into the gaps, and they were about to stretch the board open.
It can't be delayed any longer, killing and breaking the palm is a trivial matter, but breaking the window is a big thing.
Li Bai motioned for Ya'er to bring a wooden plank, and it was another meal of nails, in order to prevent the broken palm from being mourned and wearing the wooden plank again, the two sealed the window with several layers of wooden planks before relieving their hearts.
The corpses saw no living thing, and when they saw that there was no movement in the house, they dispersed and continued to hobble in search of the living creatures in the county.
The crisis was lifted, and everyone breathed a sigh of relief.
Li Bai set his eyes on the severed palm.
"It's a vital object." He set the nature of this palm in his heart, and he leaned down to take a closer look.
Cao Bing, Ya'er, and Doctor Jia saw Li Bai leaning down to look at the broken palm, so they also leaned down together and looked at the broken palm.
The four of them stared at each other, just like looking at an ant's nest as a child, full of curiosity and curiosity.
"Do you see what?" Li Bai asked quietly, he didn't dare to speak loudly, for fear of attracting zombies.
"This zombie doesn't pay attention to personal hygiene." Ya'er muttered quietly, she looked at the zombie's nails, which were a little long.
Li Bai also noticed the zombie's nails, the zombie's nails did grow, but they were not the sharp length of the zombie he encountered at the Blood Waterfall that day, its skin was rotten, and there were no corpse spots, so it was concluded that it was a zombie with a good physique, not a zombie.
"This deflated calf, resist beating! Two hammers to smash it! Cao Bing said indignantly.
Li Bai also noticed this, otherwise he would not be in a hurry to leave the severed palm for study.
The bones of this zombie are gray, and the physical fitness should be higher than that of a zombie with white bones.
This is bad news, zombies in the last days are divided into levels, and high-level zombies are more tricky and will greatly deplete their physical strength.
Li Bai looked up at Divine Doctor Jia, who stared straight at the severed palm and was silent.
"What is Doctor Jia's opinion?" Li Bai expected that he must have discovered something important, and he was thinking about it, and it was estimated that it was an amazing discovery.
"Old man?" Seeing that Doctor Jia didn't respond, Ya'er patted him and asked softly.
"Huh? It's all said, I can't hear clearly, won't the little baby be louder? Divine Doctor Jia raised his head with an expression that I had already explained many times.
"Me! ......Hearing this, Cao Bing suddenly understood, and he opened his mouth to shout, Li Bai's hand was sick, and he hurriedly covered Cao Bing's mouth.
"Whew, Hyun...... Brother, you ...... What's going on?! Cao Bing's face was full of innocence and asked vaguely.
"Big brother, don't shout, you're going to die!" Li Bai withdrew his hand and whispered.
Cao Bing suddenly realized that the shouting would attract a crowd of corpses, and he blushed with shame and hurriedly said sorry.
"The old man's senses are really delayed." Li Bai let out a long sigh, he picked up the black thorn and drew a line of words on the bloodstained ground: "Do you see something?" ”
"Little Lao'er travels from south to north, and naturally has more knowledge than you, and I also treated the big man back then." When Doctor Jia said this, he became complacent.
"Poison into the bone marrow, bone from white to gray, is the norm, the disease has a course of disease, pay attention to a gradual step." Doctor Jia stroked his beard and said, after everyone heard it, they all felt that it was really like that, and they nodded one after another.
"Doctor Jia, what you said is reasonable, but you don't have a beard, what kind of beard do you cares." Li Bai listened carefully, then said with some embarrassment, and shook his head after speaking, knowing that Doctor Jia couldn't hear it.
"Under the tutelage of Xia Wuhe, I also know a little bit about medical science, since this heartlessness is raging, I have seen countless corpses, especially this time I witnessed Zhang Zhuangshi's illness, and I have a deeper understanding of the mechanism of this disease." Doctor Jia had a serious look on his face.
Li Bai saw it in his eyes and sighed, this is the legendary academic exchange.
"This marrow is poison, and this poison is bone marrow." Doctor Jia's eyes shone with wisdom, as if he was standing on the podium of the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine.
"Doctor Jia, do you mean that the transmission route of this virus is bone marrow?" Li Bai asked.
"This great plague makes people feel sick and evil from the outside, and eventually deteriorates and loses their heart." Doctor Jia didn't answer Li Bai, not only because he couldn't hear it, but also because he was immersed in the ocean of Chinese medicine, and he kept talking about his academic achievements.
Li Bai picked up the black thorn and drew a line of words on the ground: "Bone marrow is poisonous? After seeing it, Doctor Jia nodded.
Li Bai heard Doctor Jia say this, and generally understood.
From Doctor Jia's words, Li Bai determined that the bone marrow of the zombie was the source of infection of the virus.
Therefore, Zhang Jia was hit by the rib dart, and the corpse would be transformed, because the rib bone marrow overflowed and infected him; Therefore, people will be corpse after being bitten by zombies, because there is pulp in the teeth, and the teeth rot, and the pulp will naturally overflow.
Li Bai thought of this, a little lucky, in this way, as long as he stayed away from the bone marrow, he would not be infected, and it was almost no problem to scratch his claws, as long as the bone marrow of the zombie's finger was not exposed.
Judging from the current situation, Li Bai combined his shallow biological knowledge and summarized that two key factors are needed to be infected, one is the virus, that is, the bone marrow; The second is a large area of wounds, which can cause fluid exchange.
Two things are indispensable.
Li Bai pondered again, the outbreak of the epidemic for more than a year, the possibility of the virus being transmitted by air can basically be denied, if the air is the way of transmission, human beings would have been extinct long ago.
"In order to prevent corpseization, our wounds should be kept away from the bone marrow of zombies." Li Bai said to everyone solemnly, and after speaking, he picked up the black thorn and scratched this sentence on the ground to show Doctor Jia.
After seeing it, Doctor Jia nodded.
"Old man, you have bad ears and eyes, and you were invited down the mountain by me, and you are in danger, I'm really embarrassed." Cao Bing picked up the black thorn and wrote a few lines on the ground crookedly.
"Half of my body is already buried in the loess, what are you afraid of, it's enough, and I also have to study this plague." Doctor Jia waved his hand and smiled.
"When you reach my age, you will understand that in fact, it is a good thing to see and hear clearly, but it is a lot of trouble." Doctor Jia said with emotion.
"It's important to clean up this place, because in the hot summer, bacteria breed and diseases spread." Li Bai looked at the corpses all over the house, blood overflowing, and said calmly.
It took about half an hour, and everyone lifted the corpses one by one, picked up the broken corpses one by one, and piled them up in the hall to be disposed of.
Ya'er collected the pieces of cloth at home and distributed them to everyone, everyone took the pieces of cloth, leaned over, wiped the blood stains on the ground, and the smell of fish hit the face, making people frown.
Li Bai suddenly had the feeling of having a party all night in the bachelor dormitory and cleaning up the house the next day, which was really bitter.
Seeing that there were fewer and fewer blood stains, and the house was getting cleaner and cleaner, everyone was overjoyed, and when the last drop of blood was wiped away, everyone finally breathed a sigh of relief and piled up the blood-stained cloth on top of the corpse.
"It's definitely not okay to leave the garbage inside, and if you take it out of the house, you have to take the risk." Li Bai looked at this disgusting mountain of garbage, and couldn't help but think about ways to lower the risk, and after thinking for a long time, he didn't have an eyebrow.
"How about piling these things up in the cellar?" Cao Bing saw Li Bai's worries.
"No, if we're stuck here for a long time, the basement will be of great use." Li Bai immediately rejected this plan.
After research, everyone decided to open the door and transport the corpses out when there were fewer corpses around Zhang's house.
Li Bai and Cao Bing are responsible for safety, and Ya'er and Jia Shenyi are responsible for transportation, which is expected to be completed in a quarter of an hour, and the battle will be resolved quickly.
The crowd moved the body to the main entrance to shorten the distance as much as possible.
Li Bai observed the situation outside the window through the gap in the wooden board, the zombies were wandering scattered, they didn't notice that there were people in the house, looking at their rotten bodies, revealing white bones.
Li Bai was a little lucky, it seemed that the zombies with gray bones were sudden and uncommon.
Maybe it has a trigger mechanism.
Ya'er looked out the window and couldn't help but feel sad, the order of Hanzhong County, which his father tried so hard to maintain, collapsed at the moment he died.
She looked up at Li Bai, who was looking for an opportunity, and her heart warmed: "Fortunately, he is here, otherwise people really don't know what to do." ”
Cao Bing came upstairs and dragged the bodies of Tu Baye and Kong Yi downstairs, still in the pile of corpses.
took a cloth to wrap Zhang Jia's body again, he looked at Zhang Jia's shroud, and couldn't help but sigh with emotion, muttering silently.
"Old buddy, I knew this was the case, what money am I fighting for, it is estimated that my little Cui'er has become a mess of carrion at the moment, forget it, just blame me for being a temperament."
Cao Bing thought of Xiaocui, couldn't help but feel heartache, wiped his tears, he picked up Zhang Jia's body, came downstairs, and prepared to be cremated alone.
Doctor Jia was old, his physical strength was not as good as that of a young man, and he was a little sleepy, so he leaned on the corner of the wall and fell asleep.
He slept for a while, and in his dream he seemed to dream of the master, and then he woke up, he scratched his head, and some could not recall the appearance of the master, he sighed, and said to himself: "Alas, the days are so long. ”
"Everyone, get ready." Li Bai saw that there were fewer zombies outside the house, so he lifted the black thorn, pried open the plank, and said resolutely.