The empty streets do not feel a trace of human breath, and the sky is full of missing person notices and various emergency plans. At the traffic lights at the intersection, only the yellow lights flashed rhythmically, and police cars and SWAT riot cars parked quietly next to the roadblocks, the doors wide open but there was no sign of the police. At the edge of the intersection was an iron safety fence, and at the other end of the fence were tents with large letters written on them, but it was clear that the hairy chemical sign was more eye-catching; Although no one cares about this anymore.

The gray sky hung over the dying city like an endless night, the whining of the wind seemed to be an echo of the past, and a few figures could be seen wandering in the shade of the trees or in the damp alleys, but they might no longer be called human, but more like the beasts of hell in nightmares, or the living dead who had lost their souls. Two shriveled zombies with green spots squatted in front of a corpse that had been eviscerated and enjoyed their bloody meal.

A white van sped through the street, sweeping up the dust and sand that had settled on the ground and was almost solidified, and the dragging air currents pulled the leaflets that were originally floating in the air, followed by several walking corpse monsters, lingering and moving their damaged carrion shells, and following the van step by step.

The van, which had made a long circle down the road, finally stopped in front of a small supermarket with a sign still lit. The door of the supermarket seems to be unlocked, the lights are still on, and the security net in the window has been reduced by half, as if it is about to close. The car stopped in front of the shop for a while, and out of the driver's seat of the car came a boy in an army combat uniform. The boy looked quite young, probably not yet thirty years old. But this is still a little immature face, but not the rashness of most young people, but the calmness that can be alone, the handsome cheeks are stained with a little gray and bloodstained sweat, the corners of the slightly upturned mouth reveal a trace of sunshine and confidence, the tall figure is like a harbor seen in the wind, reliable and warm. He carried a black competitive crossbow on his back, a short-bladed dagger pinned to his waist, and a leather quiver with a bundle of crossbow arrows tied to his left leg.

The boy looked down at the people in the car while holding a large travel backpack that didn't contain anything, "You stay here, I'll be in there for a maximum of an hour." Didn't come out after half an hour or did you think something was wrong and drove away from here, you know? The occupants in the car didn't respond, so he asked again, "Do you know?" ”

"Hmm......" the man in the car whispered.

The boy was still a little uneasy, he first looked around to confirm safety, and then leaned over and said to the people in the car: "Wei Hong, you should also be a soldier, be strong!" Feeling better? ”

"It's okay, the fever doesn't seem to ......have subsided," Wei Hong, who was sitting in the car, was sweating profusely, and his pale lips were slightly struggling. As a freshman in national defense at a university, although he had a certain intensity of training and basic military knowledge, these advantages were useless when the high fever did not subside.

Wei Hong's skin was darker than the boy outside the car, and he was thinner than him, curled and half-leaning on the passenger seat, he was covered with a camouflage combat uniform, and his legs were trembling in blood-stained camouflage wear-resistant military pants.

"I'll find out if there is any fever reducer."

The boy outside the car nodded and left a sentence, then turned around and walked into the supermarket; As soon as he took two steps, Wei Hong in the car lowered the window and shouted, "Wei Hui," Wei Hui, who was about to walk to the door of the supermarket, didn't seem to hear it, so Wei Hong shouted again in a loud voice, "Brother! This time, Wei Hui, who heard his brother's call, glanced back at Wei Hong, "Be careful......

Wei Hui didn't speak, just shrugged his shoulders and smiled at his younger brother before turning around and walking into the supermarket. The sun was not visible on the gray sky, and the slightly wet and cold weather was not what Wei Hong wanted. He closed the window, looked around at the quiet street, glanced at the clock in the car, and then stared at the window of the supermarket and the door that had just closed. It was already five o'clock in the afternoon, and if Wei Hui could move quickly, they should be able to find a safe place to stay nearby and spend the night.

The night is no longer desirable for young people like the Merriam-Webster brothers, who call the living dead ghouls when the last rays of the sun fade into the horizon, and the dead will gather in the cities where the living once dominated, and the Merriam-Webster brothers call the living dead ghouls. In fact, the so-called ghouls are patients infected with the unknown deadly virus HTS89. This new virus mutated from the influenza virus is highly contagious, and the transmission route is different, but the most obvious and deadly transmission route is bitten; In other words, anyone who is bitten by someone with the HTS89 virus will be infected. What's even more terrifying is that people infected with this virus will gradually lose consciousness, and will be accompanied by flu symptoms such as high fever and chills at the beginning, but after the virus invades the human nerve center, the patient's brain will basically lose its function in our traditional sense, which is intuitively similar to coma shock. And this is only the early stage of the onset of the disease; After being unconscious for more than half an hour, they will wake up and become what we often call zombies, which are also the ghouls of the Merriam-Webster brothers.

Ghouls, as the name suggests, live on human corpses, but not only that, they are highly aggressive, like beasts that have lost their sanity to humans, are far superior in strength and speed, and like to go out at night, and are afraid of sunlight and bright lights. Officials say there is no cure for the disease, and it is explosively contagious, and military and police are allowed to shoot and subdue when it gets out of control. Even so, the situation eventually spiraled out of control. Nanning, where the Webriam brothers are located, is a quiet city in southwest China and the capital of Guangxi. The city is the political and economic center of the region, with a population of seven to eight million, yet more than five million people failed to pass the medical examinations following the government's quarantine order, i.e. carriers of the virus and those at high risk of infection.

One night in late autumn, the city-wide quarantine plan was put into effect. Millions of people in the city were forcibly evacuated to different areas with different levels of quarantine, while the remaining two or three million people were rushed out of the city. On the third day of the quarantine order, people who had lost patience began to spiral out of control, and to make matters worse, the virus spread several times faster than officially expected, with attacks of HTS89 patients in many parts of the city, while much of the city was spiraling out of control. Far from being substantively helpful, the dispatch of the police force has stimulated more conflicts. Restless people complained that the evacuation plan was slow due to their lack of cooperation, and the growing number of ghouls put the city and its people at risk.

Wei Hui and Wei Hong are national defense students in college, one of the two brothers has enlisted in the army, and the other is still a freshman; But it is worth affirming that both brothers are better than their classmates. The elder brother Wei Hui is a well-known honor student in the school, while the younger brother has excellent grades, but his withdrawn personality makes him not as popular as his older brother. When the crisis erupted, the brothers were assigned to distancing the university's faculty and students. During an evacuation, Wei Hong reconfirmed in the school after dropping off the last bus out of the school to make sure no one was left behind, but was attacked by two ghouls, but he was saved thanks to Wei Hui's timely appearance. It's just that due to overwork and not paying attention to the condition of his body, Wei Hong had a high fever within a few days, but it is certain that he was not infected with HTS89.

Half an hour passed, the gray sky gradually darkened, the lights on the supermarket signboard flashed a little poorly, and there was no movement inside, but Wei Hui did not come out. After another five minutes, Wei Hong absentmindedly leaned back in the chair and watched the time on the dashboard pass minute by minute, he couldn't bear it anymore, picked up a baton placed under his seat and opened the door and walked out of the van. Although he and Wei Hui were both national defense students who were responsible for assisting in the evacuation, they were not real military police after all, so neither of them carried firearms. Wei Hong's baton was the only weapon they had at the time, and Wei Hui's competitive crossbow was captured from a thug.

Wei Hong gently pushed open the glass door of the supermarket, the shelves full of houses blocked most of his vision, although the light of the incandescent light was bright enough, in this environment, he was still extremely vulnerable to surprise attacks; Neither humans nor ghouls are a good thing.

"Wei Hui!" Wei Hong shouted while carefully walking past the shelves against the wall, "Where are you?" Wei Hui! ”

There was no one in the supermarket to answer, only the still running freezer humming with the noise of the compressor. The supermarket was a little bigger than it looked from the outside, about the size of a high school classroom, and the unsightly shelves seriously affected Wei Hong's vision. Wei Hong wanted to shout again, but in front of a shelf, he found Wei Hui's competitive crossbow on the ground, scattered around it with all kinds of packaged food, a backpack that had been kicked against the wall, a large pool of black blood, and a blood line and bloody footprints that stretched somewhere.

"Oh no......" Wei Hong shook the baton in his hand in a panic, and his breathing, which was already unstable, involuntarily became short, "No, no, no, no, no......"

Wei Hong followed the bloody footprints carefully and quickly to the back door of a half-hidden supermarket, and all kinds of bad results flashed through his mind one after another, and he had to prepare for the worst. Just as he was thinking about how to push the door open, there seemed to be movement on the other end of the door, and the sound of tired footsteps approaching little by little, sounding staggering and murderous. Wei Hong nervously raised his baton, steadied his breath, and prepared for the moment when the door opened. I saw that the door was suddenly opened, and a figure jumped out, which frightened Wei Hong's whole body and jumped back, and he was about to swing the baton, but he was immediately supported by the other party's arm at a better speed. After a second, Wei Hong, who was highly nervous, finally saw the other party's face clearly, although his face was covered in blood and he was embarrassed, he was still human.

"It's still slow." Wei Hui twisted slightly, and the baton in Wei Hong's hand fell to the ground.

"You're scared the hell out of me!" Wei Hong pushed his brother with his elbow, picked up the baton and pointed at Wei Hui's back with his chin, "What's the matter?" ”

"Got attacked by a bastard, it's fine." Wei Hui shrugged, pushed Wei Hong to turn around and walk back to the shelf, put his back on the competitive crossbow, and said with a smile, "If it were you, it would probably be over." ”

"Nonsense, am I a vegetarian?"

Looking at his younger brother with a stubborn face, Wei Hui didn't splash him with cold water, but was busy putting the scattered things back into his backpack. "Didn't I just want you to leave in half an hour?"

Wei Hong knew that he was going to be made fun again, and he was kind enough to treat him as a donkey's liver and lungs, so he gave Wei Hui a gesture of contempt and turned around and walked out of the supermarket. The door of the supermarket closed again, and Wei Hui, who was alone and continued to be busy cleaning up, immediately disappeared with a reluctant smile a second ago, replaced by a desperate fear and uneasiness. He endured the pain, and little by little he lifted the trouser leg of his left foot, and the gauze wrapped around his calf had begun to ooze blood spots. Wei Hui knew that he was running out of time.

There is no way, if you want to blame yourself, you will blame yourself for negligence, there is no need for your own cheap life to survive, but if you give up on yourself like this, what should Wei Hong, who is still sick, do? Judging by the data at hand, I should have less than a day to struggle, but I can become the biggest threat to the people I want to protect at any time...... Damn, I didn't expect everything to be so rushed.

Wei Hui, who wrapped two more loops of gauze, took a deep breath, carried a bulging backpack, and walked out of the supermarket as much as possible as if nothing had happened. Fortunately, the ghoul didn't bite deeply and didn't hurt the Achilles tendon in his ankle, but it was enough to kill Wei Hui a day later. After losing the bag and getting into the car, Wei Hui sat back in the driver's seat, started the car, and suddenly buckled his seat belt for himself after thinking about it. Wei Hui, who usually has to be reminded to remember to wear a seat belt, would be so self-conscious, Wei Hong glanced at him in surprise.

"What are you looking at?" Wei Hui put down the handbrake, he knew that his behavior was a little abnormal, so he simply found an excuse to deal with the matter, "Safety first." ”

"Where do we go next?"

"I remember there's a hospital around here, let's go there tonight. I didn't find any medicine just now, but it should be available in the hospital. ”

"Didn't you say you're out of town today?" Wei Hong said curiously.

"How can you get out of the city in this state?"

"I'm fine......"

"Nonsense! What's okay? If you have another high fever halfway through, who will take care of you? Wei Hui interrupted his younger brother's words excitedly, glared and shouted, "If you call to go to the hospital, go to the hospital, where is there so much nonsense!" ”

Wei Hui's scolding frightened Wei Hong and quickly closed his mouth, and he didn't know why he suddenly had such a nameless fire, but after all, he was still out of concern for himself, so Wei Hong didn't fight anymore, but he couldn't stand this inexplicable anger. The atmosphere in the car instantly became awkward, and Wei Hui also realized his impulse, but he couldn't tell Wei Hong at this time, he couldn't leave Nanning. At the moment, he only hoped to find a medicine that could reduce Wei Hong's fever as soon as possible, and then he could have a place to live temporarily.