Chapter 13 Dormitories
The structure here is not much different from the apartment that Lao Huang rented when he first came to work in S, a long corridor with rows of security doors on both sides, and each dormitory has two high and low beds with cabinets, and a dormitory for four people. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
The whole dormitory building is incredibly quiet, even a needle falling to the ground can be heard, the empty corridor echoes the footsteps of a group of people, "dong dong dong", it seems extremely lonely, and finally found a pool of blood on the floor in a corner, which has long been blackened, Officer Li's center of gravity is lowered, his hands are holding the fire axe, and what he sees is a corpse that has been dead for a long time.
The corpse was lying in the corner with its back against the wall, it was already highly decomposed, white maggots were constantly pouring out of its mouth and eye sockets, the upper body was short sleeved in a police uniform, navy blue trousers, it was obvious that it was a police officer, he had a black hole in his temple, the wound was burned by gunpowder, his left arm had a long bite wound, his right hand was weakly slumped next to it, and he held a police revolver in his hand.
Li Zhenhua can no longer identify which of his colleagues he is from this highly rotten face, and it can be seen that he committed suicide after being attacked by zombies, and he was unwilling to mutate.
When everyone saw this scene, they couldn't help but sigh, and Lao Huang was also miserable in his heart, if he was infected, would he have the courage to end his life?
Li Zhenhua took the pistol from the corpse with an unbearable look, how did he know that the corpse's hand held the gun very tightly, and as soon as he pulled it down, he directly tore off the corpse's wrist, revealing a piece of the corpse's white bones, and ripped off the palm of his hand, Li Zhenhua took the gun at this time, he twisted his wrist, the pistol's wheel bounced off, and he observed it, the three bullet slots were empty, and there were three bullets left, and he casually put the gun in his pocket.
When Officer Li opened the first locked door with a lockpicking tool, Lao Huang and Ah Fan were guarding the door left and right, ready to deal with possible accidents at any time, "click", a crisp sound, the door opened, and what appeared in front of everyone was not a zombie, but an empty room, this room reminded Lao Huang of the dormitory where he used to participate in military training, but the students at that time couldn't make the room so tidy, the room grew box-shaped, this dormitory has three high and low beds, silver-gray steel frame structure, The lower bunk has an iron locker, and each bed is a snow-white mattress, covered with a layer of mattresses, an army-green quilt, folded into a tofu block and placed at the head of the bed, a blue blanket placed next to it, also folded into a tofu block, and a white pillow.
There is a washbasin, soap, and mouthwash cups in the small compartment under the bed, and the white tiled floor is spotless, and there is a water dispenser full of water, broom, mop, bucket by the wall. A neat row of lockers is also lined up against the wall, painted clean white. The warm sunlight shines in through the windows and reflects off the floor to the eyeballs, making it dazzlingly bright.
"Great, I've finally found a place to sleep." The person who spoke was Xiao Xia, an ordinary company white-collar worker, the nature of his occupation was closest to Lao Huang's three, and his attributes were also closest to Lao Huang's three, more homely, bachelor, with glasses on his nose, deep myopia, was a twenty-five-year-old young man, with a more motherly accent, and the sudden disaster made everyone's character gloomy, but as long as he saw a glimmer of hope for a reply, there would be people who were optimistic by nature to show their true nature and infect everyone, Xia Mingfeng was such a person, seeing the comfortable environment in front of him, He couldn't help but smile, and even everyone breathed a sigh of relief.
"It's fine." Officer Li was reluctant to let his guard down at this time, and said, "Let's look at another room." ”
Lao Huang said: "Don't you live here?" ”
"No, I'm a local, I don't live here unless I'm in a special situation, I only have one room here with a key." Officer Lee said. He can't hold a weapon in his hand when picking locks, so he's extra careful.
The room number is room 106, and everyone carefully opened the doors of several adjacent dormitories, 107, 108, 109, 110, without exception, all of them are empty, there are no figures, and there are no zombies in sight, but the bedding in some rooms is not neatly folded, Lao Huang estimated that the police were more urgent at that time, and there was no time to take care of these.
Finally, Officer Li used the key to open a dormitory door at the end of the corridor, 124, which was also empty, except that this dormitory only had two beds, and it was a wooden bed, with a TV cabinet, a TV, a desk full of books, and a laptop on the table, which was the officer's lounge, where Officer Li rested when he couldn't go home on a special mission.
Lao Huang couldn't wait to find a well-fitting police uniform in the closet of a dormitory, ready to change into it, and after taking off his clothes, he revealed a white body with thick hair, Lao Huang found that there were two large green spots on his chest, which looked like bruises after being seriously injured, but he touched it with his hand, and it was not painful or itchy. When a person is injured, his skin should be purple, but how can his chest turn green?
What is this, could it be that giant zombie hunk whose filthy blood is infecting me through my clothes??
Lao Huang thought in his heart that if this situation occurred, wouldn't he have to explain?
Is this the end of my life?
Will I turn into a zombie and get a headshot?
Will I attack Chen Fei and Wang Fan?
I'll never see my family again?
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For a while, a thousand worries came to his heart at once, and Lao Huang couldn't help but look colorless, as if he was drenched from head to toe by a bucket of cold water in the ice and snow, stunned in place, at this time, the concerned voice of the young policeman Ye Jun came from behind, "Huang Zhenmu, what's wrong with you?" Don't change your clothes? ”
"It's nothing, it's changing, it's changing." Lao Huang was startled, and began to put on his clothes.
Lao Huang pretended to be casual on the outside, telling himself that there might not be a big deal, maybe it had no effect on the body, maybe it was when he accidentally knocked it, it was bruised, the situation was urgent, and he didn't even have time to shout about the pain.
Everyone changed all the dirty clothes stained with blood during the battle with the zombies into clean police uniforms, and gathered the dirty clothes and burned them along with the decomposing police corpse.
This police dormitory building has five floors, Officer Li took everyone to sweep each floor, but did not open the door again, but knocked on the door outside the door to listen to the movement inside, if there are zombies inside, then they will definitely be attracted by the movement of knocking on the door, and the living people are also, after checking every room and not hearing any abnormal sound, about half an hour has passed, Officer Li turned on the walkie-talkie and called the people who were still in the office to come to the dormitory.
"I'll go over and bring the broken arm here." Old Zodiac. "If I hadn't come, they'd have left him there."
Chen Fei said: "Are you sure you are doing the right thing?" Few of us here like him. ”
Huang Zhenmu said: "Sure, good things will be done to the end." ”
Wang Fan said: "I'll help you." ”
At this time, Officer Li called into the walkie-talkie several times, but there was still no response from the other end, and after a while, a frightened female voice came from the walkie-talkie: "Come here, Lao Bao has an accident, he is dead!" ”
Everyone who heard this was stunned and immediately ran to the previous office.
After arriving, everyone saw Lao Bao's corpse, the originally clean floor seemed to be viciously scribbled everywhere with splashed blood, Lao Bao, this slightly topped middle-aged man lying on the floor, a big hole in his chest, ribs, flesh, and internal organs were directly exposed to the air, staring at the ceiling with godless eyes, the trouser belt of the lower body had been untied, and the suit pants were half-hung on his legs, revealing his fat thighs full of black hair, and under him, a large pool of blood stained the floor, forming a pool of blood.
When Chen Fei saw this scene, he immediately turned his head and didn't look at it, almost throwing it up.
What's going on? Li Zhenhua asked the two women who were trembling in the corner, Li Min held Yang Yuexin in his arms, and the two of them were like frightened kittens huddled together.
The lively young man Xiao Xia walked over and comforted the two of them in a gentle tone, and after a while, Sister Li spoke, it turned out that when the others left to check the police dormitory, the old bag who was snoring and sleeping woke up, as punctual as setting the alarm clock, it seems that he was also pretending to be asleep just now, he began to tease the two of them with a body of alcohol, they shouted and resisted, but they couldn't make the surnamed Bao stop, but more and more pretended to be crazy and stupid and began to move his hands and feet, Xiao Yang couldn't help but give him a slap, he was annoyed and angry, grabbed Xiao Yang's neck and prepared to rape, Xiao Yang was pressed to the ground, petite, and not strong enough where is she Lao Bao, the opponent of this ruthless man, and soon his clothes were almost stripped off, and Sister Li couldn't pull him.
Xia Mingfeng was anxious when he heard this, and said, "Then Xiao Yang was bullied by Lao Bao??" Then Sister Li, you're going to kill him?? ”
Li Min was just stunned at this time and didn't say a word.
"Oh, I mean, I want to kill us in a hurry!" Xiao Xia stomped her foot.
"It doesn't seem that simple." Lao Huang was squatting next to the dead Lao Bao's body at this time, carefully observing Lao Bao's fatal injuries.
"What did you find?" Li Zhenhua said, he was a little surprised, an ordinary IT person dared to observe the corpse at such a close distance, even if many policemen may not be able to do it so indifferently, he also walked over to observe.
Lao Bao's suit jacket was in a corner of the room, and it seemed that he had thrown it over himself, the wound on his chest was torn open, his ribs were broken about seven or eight times, his lungs were torn to pieces, his stomach was torn open, and he could still see the bread that had not been completely digested, and the liquids of various colors were still steaming, and it was rotten like a puddle of paste.
"It's not like an injury caused by zombies, most of the zombies are bites, and their hands can only cause scratches, and they don't have the strength to directly disembowel people." Old Zodiac.
"That's right, this looks more like the behavior of a beast, it should be the damage caused by being forced directly on the ground by its claws." Li Zhenhua said that he habitually wanted to check the specific injury of his internal organs with his hands, but he did not have plastic gloves at hand, and he could not confirm whether there was any zombie virus on the wound.
"Just in case." Lao Huang said as he took out the dagger and stabbed it into the corpse's eye socket, completely destroying the corpse's brain, so that there was no need to worry about the corpse mutating.
Li Zhenhua nodded, and also began to check with a knife, and began to check the internal organs, and soon found that the heart of the corpse was missing.
"It's a crocodile, a monster like a crocodile!!" Sister Li shouted in a daze, her eyes still empty, as if she was still remembering the monster's shape, "Like a lizard, it crawled in from the window, it strangled his neck with its tongue, dragged him over, and then, and then ate his heart!" ”
Xiao Xia said: "What monster, a monster that eats hearts?? Crocodile or lizard? ”
"Strangle your neck with your tongue, what a long tongue it is." Lao Huang muttered, if this Sister Li is not crazy, then what kind of monster did she see, but the people here have all met with the kind of giant zombie that is more than three meters tall, and they have some immunity to this kind of thing beyond common sense.
Ye Jun found some scratches by the window, the edge of the window with sharp claws pulling, and some dirt and dust.
"What about the monster? Where did you go? Ye Jun asked.
"Climb out the window!" Li Min said.
"No matter what it is, you can't stay here any longer, everyone hurry up and move to the dormitory area over there!" Li Zhenhua said.
Lao Huang and Ah Fan went next door to set up Mengzi, who was still in a coma, and the others pulled away the shopping cart full of food, Ye Jun supported Sister Li, Xia Mingfeng originally wanted to help Yang Yuexin, but was politely refused, this woman seemed to calm down a little, and she had a temperament of rejecting people thousands of miles away, and she didn't want others to get too close to her.
After everyone moved to the dormitory area, they divided their rooms to rest, Huang Zhenmu, Wang Fan, Chen Fei and Mengzi 106, Li Zhenhua and Ye Jun lived in the police officer's lounge 124, Du Yue, Yu Chen, Xia Mingfeng, Li Liyan lived in a room 107, and three young people who had not yet matched their names lived in a room 108, originally Li Min wanted to live in a room with Yang Yuexin 109, Ms. Yang said that she wanted some private space, and insisted on living in a room 110 by herself, so the two women were divided into a dormitory alone.
Seeing this situation, the cold young man with the head of Moxican before said that he also wanted to live in a private space, but Officer Li coldly rejected it, saying that his lock-picking tool was broken, and he did not have the key to another room, if he wanted, he could find a way to open the door by himself, and the rest of the team did not want to cause more trouble, so the young man of Moxican had no way to open the locked security door, although he was not happy, he had to give up.
Soon the night came, Lao Bao's death was like a stone thrown into the lake, splashing water, and then the lake finally calmed down, how did he die, what monster killed him, no one had the energy to investigate, after locking the door of the dormitory, everyone had rested.
Night.
After gently wiping his body with a bucket of pure water, changing into clean clothes, Lao Huang lay down on the soft cot and rested quietly.
Who was the brother before this bed, whether he was still alive, and if he was dead, how did he leave?
How is the family doing now? Mom, two brothers...
As long as it quiets down, all kinds of complicated thoughts will occupy Huang Zhenmu's mind, in the past, Lao Huang chose to play a dozen of his favorite dota, or play PS4, or watch XXX48's cute girl paper performance, but now, the power is off, there is no network, Lao Huang is very bored.
"Ah, I miss my PS4 so much." Lao Huang said: "If there were no such, I should be playing the new Rulong 0 now." ”
"I'm still playing my mobile game." Chen Fei squinted his eyes, looking loveless.
Wang Fan swallowed another jelly: "I don't have a novel to read, it's so boring." ”
"Look and see if there's a power bank here." Huang Zhenmu Road.
A few people began to rummage through the cabinet under their high and low beds, Lao Huang found a whole pack of candles, as well as a lighter, so he lit two and put them on the table, and the room immediately lit up, and the warm candlelight made the light return to this room.
Next, Chen Fei found a tube of dermatitis flat, a box of toothpicks, three towels, and five pairs of socks.
Wang Fan found a fountain pen, a bottle of ink, a stack of letter paper, a notebook, a bottle of Yunnan Baiyao spray, mothballs, flower water and other gadgets.
Lao Huang opened this notebook, leather packaging, exquisite goods, this turned out to be a thick diary, has been half written, the front content is mostly some difficulties encountered in the work of duty, as well as dissatisfaction with the personnel relations in the bureau, pour bitter water and the like, etc., as well as the sweet story between his girlfriend, see the single dog Lao Huang for a while, there is an urge to light a torch, can only quickly glance, but to the last few pages, let Lao Huang can't take his eyes off, the owner of this diary has a beautiful italic pen words, Neatly written in black ink.
The weather was fine on June 12
Recently, there seems to be something important happening in the bureau, many leaders have gone to other places for meetings, and many originally arranged plans have been disrupted, and asked my captain what is going on, and he said that he doesn't know, what is it that makes our cadres at the level of captain completely unaware?
The weather was fine on June 13
Nothing to do today.
The weather was fine on June 14
Nothing to do today.
The weather was fine on June 15
Nothing to do today.
The weather was cloudy on June 16
A big case has obtained important clues through the informant, and today the captain took us over to prepare to arrest someone, but I don't know who leaked the news and let that bastard slip away, and I didn't catch it, and I got my foot broken, which is really unlucky.
I've been assigned to do some work in the bureau for the time being.
The weather was cloudy on June 17
What happened today? There are zombies attacking the living! Where do they come from? Almost all of our colleagues went out with weapons to control the situation, the deputy director and the director of the political department took the team out, and also joined the armed police and the army, so it can be said that the whole army was dispatched, but so far there is no news of victory, it is really uncomfortable to stay alone in the house, if I don't break my foot, I will definitely help.
It will be my night shift in a while, and Lao He is also very hard, he has been on duty in the communications office for more than a day and a night, and his voice is hoarse.
The weather was fine on June 18
The signal is really bad, now only Team Liu and Team Gao have contacted the headquarters, and Team Li, I reported their news to others and told them to wait for reinforcements, but where are the many people who can be sent?
Now even outside the police station there are a large number of zombies appeared, the brothers guarding the police station have a lot of effort to hold on, some brothers are injured, by the zombies bite the shoulder, Director He is tired and shot him to death, we are not afraid of any enemy, but in the face of this kind of strange disease that will become a stain, everyone feels that there is nowhere to start, and morale is very low.
The body of the fallen brother was sent to the hidden department of the bureau for autopsy, which should have been done by the epidemic prevention and control center, but now it was our turn to do it ourselves.
June 19th
The results of the study are in! It's all the result of the bailiff brothers' all-night work!
This is a highly aggressive virus, based on the results of studies of more than a dozen corpses that have been infected, it is a retrovirus, and its DNA has a long sequence similar to that of the rabies virus. When a virus infects a host cell, unlike other viruses, the virus does not easily cause the host cell to lyse and die, but instead transcribes its own DNA into RNA and then reverse transcribes it into a gene sequence inserted into the host cell's original gene. At the same time, the host gene is modified by synthetase, which causes the volume of the host cell to shrink, the surface protein to increase dramatically, and the metabolism speed to accelerate, so that the cell becomes a virus factory, and the secreted virus continuously secretes the virus, and the secreted virus re-infects other cells, until the concentration of the virus in the host fluid reaches a certain saturation value and the host cell is unable to secrete more virus, then the infected host will reach a stable state.
Viruses that infect human tissues generally intensify in intensity. Infected muscle tissue shrinks like nylon rope, and infected blood cells become more efficient by the faster exchange of substances with body fluids. Because cell metabolism accelerates, the host's body temperature will continue to rise, and the host's brain tissue and nervous system will be partially damaged. Concentrations of the virus are highest in the host's external glands, especially in the ear, nose, eye, and oral cavity. The outer epidermis of the host's eyes is the first to ulcerate, and the mandibular bone enlarges and the muscles become tighter, resulting in an increased bite force.
Viruses completely destroy the host's immune system and are capable of parasitizing other microorganisms. When the host's immune defense line is broken, the virus in the host forms a mutually beneficial symbiotic relationship with various bacteria on the host's surface, especially anaerobic bacteria, that is, the infected cells secrete metabolites into the body surface, and the microorganisms on the body surface provide oxygen and nutrients to the body. Of course, this is only an auxiliary way of energy ingestion after the host organ is completely destroyed, and the main way comes from ingesting the flesh of other individuals. Since the host's digestive system has been destroyed, the virus can only digest the food in the host's stomach by other means, that is, infect the cells in the stomach food and ingest them into the body, while lysing those cells that have been depleted of nutrients, and only living cells can be infected, which is why the infected only swallow living organisms.
The marshals speculated that if an infected person was able to consume enough meat constantly, he would be in a state of high euphoria for long periods of time and that his flesh might change. Once food is no longer sufficient, the infected person will be in a state of peace and depression.
As for why the virus does not attack the infected? Studies have shown that infected cells release a substance similar to ectoglandular hormone to remind other infected people that they are of their own kind and not prey.
I asked them, do infected people have the senses of hearing, sight and smell? The answer is yes, but not sound. The complexity of the human visual and auditory system is that humans can distinguish between different sounds and different colors, while infected people are not. Their correlator tubes are badly damaged, but they can still sense changes in the outside world, just that any noise and bright light will catch their attention. For the sense of smell, the infected person completely loses this ability.
This virus, which almost destroyed the world as we know it, was named the S virus by our forensic expert, Director Hu.
June 20th
The brothers who are still in charge of liaison with the various offices today are still under siege, and I do not know how urgent the situation is.
I was so tired that I didn't sleep more than 4 hours in two days combined, and I felt like I couldn't open my eyes.
The diary only records this day, and the rest is full of blank paper.