Chapter 48: The Return of the Mother-in-law
We only need to use the ubiquitous high-powered telescopes on the wall to patrol the distance beyond the high wall to look for a wave of corpses that may appear at any time.
The area we were assigned to work changed every day, and we quickly became familiar with all the directions at the head of the wall.
Small-scale corpses appear from time to time, and naturally they become our live target practice, because because of their cooperation, our marksmanship is getting better and better.
And the dead zombie corpse, we don't need to go out of the city to clean up, directly the flame bomb is thrown over, the corpse is quickly burned into ashes, occasionally the wind blows, the ashes go away with the wind, and the remaining scum is trampled by the later zombies to pieces, saving us a lot of energy.
This kind of life is very fulfilling, and although we are very tired from daily physical training, we are satisfied and down-to-earth.
Dr. Ali's work has improved by leaps and bounds, three months after we moved to the capital, she finally developed a zombie vaccine, the vaccine is not only researched in this short three months, before Dr. Ali has had secret results, but she didn't tell anyone, including Li Jinzheng, Ankyo and me, because the vaccine is only the last step, with healthy humans for experiments, she is really difficult to say, and has been hiding until we all moved to the capital, what I didn't expect is that the capital has the research environment that she lacks the most.
There is a secret underground laboratory in the CDC in Beijing, where I have no access to it, and even if I have a good relationship with Ali, Ali can't bring me in, because the subjects there are living people, and the content of the experiment is highly confidential.
Those living people are survivors of serious crimes, all sentenced to death, but they were not comfortably shot, but were secretly transported into the underground laboratory of the CDC by chains, and accepted the ** experiments of various viruses, which was not requested by Dr. Ali, but the arrangement of Minister Nie, although Dr. Ali felt extremely inhumane, but had to accept it, because only the test of a new vaccine with humans is the most reliable. On the one hand, there are heinous criminals, and on the other hand, all human beings waiting to be saved, Dr. Ali finally chose to compromise, this road her father Dr. Jin has already walked, after such a long journey, she also followed in her father's footsteps, the only thing that comforts her is that these ** are all damned people, none of the sins they have committed are not heinous, most of them are manic men who are violent to young children and women, and they are addicted to eating human flesh in the last days, even if there is no shortage of food now, they secretly kill people to satisfy their appetites, It is not a pity that such people are used as waste experiments.
After the criminals were injected with the zombie vaccine, they were bitten by the zombies, of course, the arms of the zombies have been removed, only the heads that can bite people are left, and the bite parts are not fatal, only limited to the arms and thighs, except for being bitten and screaming blood, none of these criminals were infected and mutated, and the wounds gradually grew new flesh after receiving professional treatment until they recovered.
These criminals are also ruthless characters, even if they are so miserable experiments, they still have a strong desire to do business, gritting their teeth and insisting, only one person tried to commit suicide on a hunger strike, and was tied to the experimental bed with a tube to pour food directly into the stomach, suffered a lot of sins and couldn't die, he bit off his tongue and wanted to kill himself, but after a large piece of his tongue was bitten off, he was immediately treated by the doctor to stop bleeding, until the broken tongue no longer bleed, and he suffered severe pain in vain and lost his tongue and did not die, and finally had to continue to be his guinea pig, After being bitten off a piece of flesh alive, it was properly treated, and then it was gnawed and lived a dark life.
This person has eaten several innocent people, and has been repeatedly eaten by zombies, which can be regarded as a retribution of the present world.
After many repeated experiments on these criminals, the zombie vaccine was finally proven to be completely effective, and the effect was safe and stable, and Dr. Ali handed in a perfect answer to the New Celestial Empire.
But Minister Nie is cautious, and after reporting to the country's leaders, she suggested that instead of making the vaccine available to everyone, some volunteers should be recruited to be injected first to observe the long-term effect.
Dr. Ali told me about this privately, which made my heart stir, I felt cruel and relieved, and I felt mixed feelings, and I was somewhat hesitant when it came to the first batch of zombie vaccinations.
Dr. Ali is full of confidence in the vaccine she has developed, she has signed up to be the first batch of vaccine volunteers, seeing my hesitation, she took the initiative to let me wait a year to say, which makes me a little embarrassed, although I believe her, but after all, it is a zombie vaccine, in case there is something wrong with my physique, it will be a matter of minutes to instantly transform into a zombie virus.
I'm afraid of death and sail the ship for ten thousand years, I comfort myself like this, anyway, I don't need to come into contact with zombies head-on now, the possibility of being bitten is very low, what are we anxious about, let's wait and talk.
The zombie vaccine can only give uninfected survivors a gold medal to avoid death, and it has to be that the zombie does not destroy the head of the living and the stomach is not opened, to put it bluntly, it is accidentally bitten, and there is no need to worry about becoming a monster, which is already a great advantage! Many soldiers signed up to volunteer, becoming the first people to be vaccinated against zombies.
We partners, not many people signed up, especially the women, most of them reported an observation attitude, and only Luohan, Thunderstorm, Tudou and Fenglin were the big-hearted guys who ran around to become volunteers, and they said that even the vaccine developer Dr. Ali dared to inject it, what would they not dare.
I admired and worried about them, and after muttering at home for several days, Canaan laughed at me.
After Dr. Ali came to the capital, she received a large number of survivors who died soon after being terminally ill, most of them were elderly, most of them were cancerous, she treated her mother-in-law like a dead horse, and treated all these patients with zombie virus therapy, all of them survived healthily, and all the diseases in the body disappeared, which was amazing, of course, they were also isolated and observed, and could no longer go home to live with their families.
And my mother-in-law is no longer lonely now, she has many patients who are sympathetic to each other, in fact, my mother-in-law now knows what is happening to her, and she has accepted the status quo calmly, and has never blamed me and Canaan, when we take Shuai Shuai to see her again, her mood is calm and peaceful, her face is getting better and better, and she is fat.
After another heavy snowfall, the CDC issued a notice that all terminally ill patients treated by the zombie virus can return to their families, but they will have to return to the center every week to inject stabilizing drugs.
This news made our family very happy, and it also made the families of those patients very happy, and we families were happy to take our loved ones home, and I heard Dr. Ali tell me that there are hundreds of patients who have returned to their families, that is, hundreds of families can be reunited.
We had already prepared a room for my mother-in-law at home, but I didn't expect my mother-in-law to insist on not living with us, the reason is very simple, she still has a fear of the zombie virus in her body, for fear that one day the mutation will hurt us, no matter how we explain to her, her state is stable, and the old people do not listen, and refused the suggestion to live with my parents, so we have to let us get her a separate house in Vanke Home.
Next to our family are Luo Han and Wu Yao, they knew the mother-in-law's request, they took the initiative to vacate this room for her to live, and the two moved to an empty house a little farther away, anyway, the layout of these houses is similar, for which we can only be grateful, we did not consider this before, otherwise we will leave the empty house next to it.
After a simple cleaning for my mother-in-law, she moved into her own house next to us, and now our family of three is sandwiched between my mother-in-law and my parents, and it is convenient to take care of both of them.
For our partners, the return of the mother-in-law is mostly the same joy, and many people come to visit the elderly, but there are still some rumors that have reached our ears, some people are afraid and worried about the people who carry the virus to live by their side, but there is no way to stop it, they can only complain secretly, we have made psychological preparations early in our hearts, we can't just stand in our own perspective to consider the problem, their fear is completely understandable, and what we can do is to try to protect the mother-in-law from these interferences, She was able to spend her old age happily with her children and grandchildren.
Mother-in-law herself is also very sensible, she let Canaan and Thunderstorm make her yard closed, and the courtyard gate has also been changed to an anti-theft door, these measures are not to prevent thieves, but to prevent herself, so that other people in the community can rest assured, we see her use a cage to seal herself up is very distressed, but she can't resist her insistence, Thunderstorm began to refuse to do this at all, mother-in-law asked him with a straight face, are you my son? You'll listen to me. The thunderstorm couldn't stand the old man's question, sighed and followed Canaan to work.
As for Shuai Shuai, she became the first person to be severely stopped by her mother-in-law from going to her house, but she would eat together in our house after we got off work every day, and by the way, her grandson was rare, although we lived in three houses, but still maintained the habit of eating dinner together, that was the most rare and precious family time in the last days, only at this time, the mother-in-law would look at Shuai Shuai with a smile on her face, she touched Shuai Shuai's head at most, occasionally hugged him gently, but never kissed her grandson, how much restraint this must be! It makes me sad to see that there are not many old people like my mother-in-law who can endure it. Not only that, but the tableware and cups she eats every day are also carried with her, and she takes them away when she goes back, and she takes them with her when she comes to eat, which is very strict.
I consulted Dr. Ali, terminally ill patients who have been treated by the zombie virus, saliva will not infect other people, even if it is the saliva of zombies, it will not directly infect living people, the virus must be transmitted through blood, so there is no danger at all for the whole family to have a set of utensils or mother-in-law and grandchildren, if saliva will cause infection, then these terminally ill patients who have been cured are equivalent to high-risk infectious disease people, and it is impossible for them to be allowed to return to the family.