In the early morning after the blizzard, the sky was blue, the wind was rolling the snow, and the huge open space in the courtyard was full of snow, and the snow half a foot thick was not above the bare feet, and every foot had to sink when running, making a creaking sound.

In the courtyard, along the snow wall of the courtyard, there has been a line of footprints, running in the snow is a very difficult thing, but Tang Ji did not give up today's morning run, running on the snow will be more tiring, but more exercised, the winter is still very long, he must try to adapt to the first winter after the end of the world.

The temperature was minus ten degrees, which was the temperature of the early morning, and it was very cold, but Tang Ji did not wear too thick clothes, or for that reason, winter, he needed to adapt.

"Roar!" Suddenly a zombie roar sounded, waking up Tang Ji who was running while thinking about things, his heart sank, he stopped and raised his head to look at the south side of the courtyard, the zombie roar came from the forest outside the south side of the courtyard.

Tang Ji was currently near the north wall, and if he wanted to see the south side, he needed to go through the whole courtyard and then go outside, he stopped and gasped slightly, his mouth was swirling with hot white mist, and the part of the scarf around his neck near his lips was covered with a little hoarfrost.

Don Ji looked up at the snow-covered trees not far away, some branches in the canopy swaying with the wind, it was the north wind blowing today.

Rustling...... Squeak......

The duke was a little uneasy, walking back and forth in front of Tang Ji, stepping on some footprints on the snow around Tang Ji, De Mu's hardy surname is very strong, although the duke is not an adult dog, but it is not a puppy, it can adapt to the winter environment more quickly than a human, minus ten degrees is no problem for the duke.

The Duke heard the roar of the zombies, which was not too far away, but it had not yet smelled the zombies, because of the direction of the wind.

Roar! Click! ……

There was another roar, not just one, but several, also south, but not in the same direction as before.

"Get up, the zombies are coming, quick!" This time is too early, the sky is not yet fully bright, everyone else is sleeping, Don Ji looked at the sky, then pressed one hand on the earphone of his ear, said in a voice that was neither high nor low, and then led the duke and began to cross the snow, and after a few steps, he loosened the dog chain he was holding in his hand, took out the pistol from his waistband, and took out the silencer from his arms and screwed it on the muzzle.

The zombie appeared, rushed out of the forest, and slammed into the barbed wire fence, the wall shook violently, and the zombie's long fingernails grabbed the barbed wire, and while roaring at Tang Ji in the courtyard, he shook the barbed wire violently, and a little snow hanging on the barbed wire fell from above.

Immediately afterwards, the second zombie rushed out of the woods and slammed into the wall, also grabbing the wall and shaking, roaring into the courtyard, they all saw Tang Ji and looked extremely excited.

There is a distance of ninety meters from the north wall of the courtyard to the south wall of the courtyard, and it does not take much time to walk over, and after being let go by Tang Ji, the duke squatted on the ground again at Tang Ji's signal, and tried to stand up and run away several times, but was stopped by Tang Ji who looked back at it from time to time with his eyes.

The Duke is afraid of zombies, and this must be changed, so Tang Ji has also trained it, just in the underground laboratory, where there is a zombie in the deepest part.

More and more zombies began to appear, as many as twenty in a short period of time, there were still zombies roaring in the forest on the south side, constantly approaching the courtyard, the zombies that had appeared did not appear in the same position, although they were all shaking the barbed wire fence, but if you want to knock down the ninety meter long wall on one side, it is impossible to rely on the twenty or thirty zombies that appear in this short period of time.

Tang Ji straddled the entire courtyard, stopped when he was still five meters away from the wall, then turned around, raised his arm holding the pistol, aimed the muzzle of the gun at the zombies outside the courtyard, and walked along the wall to the west, pulling the trigger one by one.

The zombies saw that Tangji was so close to them, it was already completely boiling, and some zombies began to try to climb the barbed wire, but it was very difficult, and they couldn't climb up at all.

Burst! Burst! Burst! Burst! ……

The gunshots rang out, and after each gunshot, there would be a sound of a heavy object falling to the ground, Tang Ji was still as calm as ever, without the slightest panic or uncalmness, there was no wave in his eyes that he looked like a machine, or a mature and experienced killer, walking slowly on the snow, looking sideways at the zombies outside the barbed wire, the arm holding the gun did not tremble at all, and his fingers hooked one by one.

Attacking a target as big as a person's head, Tang Ji, who has experienced the end of the world for half a year, has no reason to miss, the end of the world forces people to grow, and Tang Ji will take the initiative to let himself grow, at this time his marksmanship is not very accurate and abnormal, but at least it is not a rookie when the end of the world has just erupted, Robbie can attack zombies forty or fifty meters away with a pistol without fail, although Tang Ji is not as good as him, but five meters, Tang Ji really has no reason to let himself miss.

When Don Guy emptied the first magazine, someone finally rushed out of the villa, it was Ba Song and Jason who lived on the first floor, and Robbie and Sarah, who lived on the second floor, also rushed out.

At this time, Tang Ji has killed twelve zombies, he used the M9 pistol, that is, the Colt Buretta M92F pistol, this gun has been equipped with the US military for nearly 30 years, but there has been a problem that has not been solved, which is why the people have not liked this gun very much, and prefer the reason why the previous generation of the US military's standard pistol Colt M1911A1 is the problem of ammunition supply, the M9 pistol magazine capacity is fifteen rounds, but when the magazine is fully used, there may be a problem with the magazine stuck in the spring, and the ammunition supply will not be smooth.

Therefore, the magazine that could have been loaded with fifteen bullets, Don Ji only loaded twelve rounds, he is not a master of using guns, masters of guns like Robbie and Monica, it is no problem to adjust his firearms, but Tang Ji can't.

More than a dozen zombies died, but the number of zombies outside the barbed wire fence not only did not decrease, but increased, because there were still zombies running out of the forest.

The others also ran to the fence and opened fire, all of them were pistols, because it was an emergency, the zombies came suddenly, and the unprepared people could only use pistols to solve it, whether to waste ammunition was no longer in the scope of consideration, it was all about practicing guns with live ammunition.

The slaughter on the opposite side did not last too long, and in just a few minutes, the battle officially ended, more than seventy zombies were slaughtered, after the first zombie roar appeared, Tang Ji judged through the echoing zombie roar, there will not be too many zombies, so he will boldly walk to the wall, "leisurely" to kill them, in fact, this is indeed the case, there are really not many zombies this time, only more than seventy zombies have been killed.

Even so, the battle was easily won, and the process was not even thrilling, but everyone's heart sank for a moment, and there was not the slightest pleasant feeling, the real question was not how many of them came, whether they could be easily solved, but how they ...... Why come?

In the countryside, two consecutive waves of zombies spanned half of the forest, from the town to the center of the forest, appearing in the place where humans live in seclusion, with an interval of only half a month, if it is a coincidence, it is too coincidental, and from the arrival of the first batch of zombies, everyone can see that this is not a coincidence, they came here for unknown reasons.

"Their speed has slowed down, the low temperatures and the snow have affected their speed, their body temperature is low, and their muscles are starting to stiffen again because of the cold." Outside the gate on the south side of the courtyard, Tang Ji squatted next to a zombie corpse, pressed his hand on the zombie's dirty body, looked down at the zombie's body and said, Some of the discoveries he said were obtained through observation when the zombies were still alive before.

After speaking, Tang Ji grabbed some clean snow on the side, rubbed his hands to wash away the small amount of dirt on his hands, shook his hands, put on his gloves and stood up.

Behind him, most of the people who had been resting in the villa a few minutes ago had already come out, and more than a dozen people had dispersed, some on guard and some looking at Tang Ji.

"Don, do you remember our agreement half a month ago?" Qiang En's mouth was full of white gas, and he looked down at Tang Ji and said solemnly, he is too tall, look at everyone here, you have to keep your head down.

Tang Ji glanced up at Jon, lowered his head and patted the snow on his legs with his gloved hand, and said at the same time: "I will go back for one last blood collection, and then ......" Tang Ji raised his head again and made a throat-slitting motion to Jon, and then, he turned around again, raised his hand and pointed to the zombie corpses on the ground that started from his side and followed the wall to the west, and said, "Burn them." ”

Tang Ji took back the dog chain from Christine's hand, kissed Manila and then took the duke back to the laboratory, the sky was not fully lit up, but the others had to start cleaning up these zombie corpses, fortunately this time the zombie bodies were not very many, and it didn't take much time to pull them into the field one or two hundred meters away, clean up a small open space in the field, pile up the corpses, pour gasoline, and ignite them, and the whole process only took thirty points.

Although it is winter, even if the corpses are thrown in the woods, they will only freeze, they will not rot and emit a foul smell, and they will not pollute the surrounding environment, but spring will come sooner or later, and it is necessary to clean up these corpses at that time.

After the corpse was burning, Robbie and Ba Songhe got Tang Ji's notice and came to bring Tang Ji's laboratory, and soon after, the two of them worked with Tang Ji to move out of the laboratory a zombie corpse that was smooth and smooth without a trace of wounds, and the gray-white look even had some crystal light out of the laboratory, it was the zombie that Tang Ji had been using for experiments, it looked much thinner than the zombies outside, Tang Ji killed it, a knife pierced it from the mouth, but it did not come out of the back of the head, just to kill it, not to destroy its entire head, Hurt part of it and it will die.

The zombie has no heartbeat, no blood circulation, and very low blood pressure, so the killed zombie has blood in its mouth, but the blood does not spurt out, so it looks clean.

Robbie and Ba Song each tied a rope to the zombie's bare legs and feet, and dragged it on the snow to the field more than a hundred meters away, while Don Quiz pulled the Duke to run in the courtyard again, ran three more laps, and after dodging a few snowballs from Christine, Don Quix, who was wheezing, returned to the laboratory.

No one knew what Tang Ji was studying, Tang Ji told them, but after he said a lot of technical terms, everyone gave up understanding, they really didn't understand, so all they knew was that Tang Ji was doing research on animal antibodies to the zombie virus, and the Duke was the main experimental subject, as for how to study and how to study, they didn't know.

"Whew!" Don Kee, who had entered the laboratory, breathed a sigh of relief, turned on all the lights in the lab at the door, and through the fence gate, Don Kei tied the Duke to the door.

There are no zombies in the underground laboratory, but Tang Ji drew about ten kilograms of blood from the zombies, almost drained the blood on the zombies, and packed them in twenty-five blood bags, each blood bag is about 400cc of zombie blood, because zombie blood is different from human blood, so Tang Ji did not store it in a conventional way, Tang Ji put the blood bag into the biological incubator, so that it was kept in a constant temperature and humidity state, and did not add anticoagulants to the zombie blood, because in a specific environment, Zombie blood does not clot like normal human blood.

After entering the laboratory, Tang Ji took off his coat, took a shower and changed into a white coat, walked to the innermost part of the laboratory, and opened a silver-gray box on the laboratory table, which contained nine small syringes, each containing a half-filled transparent liquid.

According to the number, Don Ji picked up the syringe numbered 7, pulled out the cap, pressed the air inside, and turned to walk towards the duke.

The duke, who was standing at the gate of the fence gate, suddenly became obedient, his body was lying on the ground, his wagging tail was also lowered, and his big eyes were open and he looked up at Tang Ji, and his eyes could be described as "excited".

It saw Tang Ji holding the syringe and knew what Tang Ji was going to do, it was not the first time, it knew that it couldn't hide, at first it was afraid that Tang Ji would hurt it, but gradually it was not afraid, because it knew that as long as it hurt, there would be something delicious.

Tang Ji walked to the duke's side and squatted down, found a hairy place, stabbed the syringe into it, injected the liquid into the duke's body, then pulled out the syringe, patted the duke's head, and took some canned fish for the duke.

Taking out the shotgun and loading the bullet, Tang Ji put the gun on the experimental table, turned around and walked to the innermost part of the laboratory, the iron cage where he slept at night on the right.

A bed, a bedside table, a wardrobe, a locker, a safe, there is not much space in the iron cage, but there are not many things, there are a few clothes hanging on the wall, there are laptops on the bedside table and photos of Don Ji with Monica and Manila.

Don Ji entered the iron cage and closed the door, walked to the edge of the bed and sat down, picked up the photo frame and looked at it, the background of the photo is a sofa, Don Ji is sitting on the sofa, Monica is sitting on his lap, his eyes are looking at the camera, but he is pouting and kissing Don Quixy's cheek, Manila is standing behind the sofa, hugging Don Guy's neck, looking at the camera and kissing Don Ji on the other cheek.

Tang Ji showed a faint smile on his face, put the photo frame back on the bedside table, turned around and got out of bed and squatted, entered the password, opened the safe in front of him, he took out a fully transparent glass bottle in the safe, which was filled with transparent liquid, the bottle was not big, and there was a label on it, which said glucose injection, 100 ml and other English words, Tang Ji directly unscrewed the bottle, took two deep breaths, made the breathing steady, and then raised his head and slowly drank a bottle of glucose injection.

Glucose injection, which can be injected intravenously to replenish energy and fluids for the body, can also be drunk directly, and similarly, can also replenish energy.

After drinking the candy in the bottle, he casually put the bottle on the bedside table, and took out a notebook and a pen in the drawer under the bedside table.

Tang Ji turned the notebook to the latest and clean page and wrote on it.

Two and a half hours later.

Lying on the bed and looking at the ceiling, Tang Ji subconsciously raised his hand, his distracted eyes focused again, he looked at the watch on his wrist, and then picked up the notebook that he had just put on his body, put it on the cabinet on the side, and turned over and got out of bed.

I went to see the Duke first, and the Duke was still the same, biting the dog toy, and playing happily.

Don Ji walked past it, touched its head, and then entered the bathroom under the stairs, and after a while, there was a sound of running water in the bathroom, and ten minutes later, Don Ji walked out of the bathroom, and had changed into a new set of clothes to go out.

Leaving the Duke in the laboratory, Don Ji went outside alone, it was very lively outside, more than a dozen people were clearing the snow, it seemed that they had been busy for a long time, but they hadn't finished sweeping yet, the courtyard was too big, and from time to time there would be a few snowballs flying from the sky, it was Christine, Megan, and a few little girls, who were often lazy and didn't make efforts, and from time to time they would throw each other with snowballs.

There are snowplows in those cars in the courtyard, if you use a snowplow to clear the snow, it will be very fast, but it is useless, although manual snow clearing is a little tired, but this can also be regarded as a kind of physical exercise.

"Hey! My dear! Manila's cry rang out not far away, and Donji turned his head to look as he walked out.

Syllable! A snowball slapped in Don Guy's face.

"Oh God, damn it...... Ahem, ahem, ......" Tang Ji covered his face and squatted down.

"Oh God, baby, are you alright?" Manila screamed and ran to Donji's side, squatted down with a panicked face, and said in a nervous tone, "Are you okay?" Oh baby, I didn't mean to......" She just wanted to play a joke with Don Guy, but she didn't expect it to be so accurate.

"I'm fine, it's fine...... cough cough cough ...... Ahem, ahem, ahem......" Tang Ji grabbed the snow off his face and stood up coughing.

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Time flies, time shuttles.

The end times go on, the winter is not easy, after the freshness and joy brought by the initial snow, this winter leaves people with only cold, and the winter in New Jersey begins in November and ends in April of the following year.

Five to six months of winter is undoubtedly a long one, and for safety reasons, the people who stayed at the lake cottages didn't go out all the winter, they spent Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year's Day, and experienced the cold of -30 degrees Celsius in February, yes, -30 degrees Celsius, which should not have been the temperature of the winter in New Jersey.

In the last days, there was a drastic decrease in human activity, which led to anomalies in the climate.

A few months of winter life have not been smooth sailing, zombies! Zombies are back! From November to March 2016, the zombies appeared twice, in December and January, and the number of them did not exceed 100 on both occasions, and did not affect or harm the people who lived here, as for the reason for their appearance, it is unknown, perhaps, they really just passed by here and found people, or, for a more terrifying reason, they learned to observe.

Five months later, on March 17, 2016, this day was Tang Ji's birth. (To be continued.) )