Night.

The sun disappeared into the horizon, and the once bustling city of Manhattan fell silent again, and the zombies that roared even when they wandered unconsciously became completely silent, and at night, they seemed to have fallen into a dormant state, standing in place, their bodies shaking less, and some even stopped shaking completely, standing still like sculptures.

The city lost its light, it was pitch black, and without the bright neon lights, it was the darkest hour of the day in Manhattan, and the city would only have a hazy glow until the moon rose.

United Nations Headquarters, Secretariat Building, Room 316 on the third floor, this is the only place in the entire building where there is light, and it is very conspicuous to those who patrol and guard outside.

In the room, in the middle of the large room, on the side of the window, there is a coffee table, a few sofas, and everyone sits in a circle, chatting while eating.

Because Hillary sent a set of batteries with electricity, Laura baked some slices of bread in a small household bread machine, and the shelf life of the bread was not long, and it was impossible to find unexpired bread in the outside world at this time, so she had to make it herself.

The main dish of dinner is instant noodles and bread, and with all kinds of canned food, it is quite hearty, of course, Tangji and Maniela are a little different from what they eat, the main food becomes nutritious cereal and milk, plus some warm water, mixed into a paste, things do not look very beautiful, but they taste good and very nutritious.

Both are sick patients and need nutrients to replenish their bodies.

Two table lamps are placed on the coffee table, placed diagonally, illuminating the food full of coffee tables, in terms of food, there is no shortage for the time being, at least there will be no problems for more than two months, and there is also Hillary, they don't need to worry about food at all, since Hillary has the ability to feed thousands of people, she naturally doesn't care about a few more.

Of course, the people who live here are the ones who don't have as much food as they do, and they don't have to eat it too long, and they need to work for Hillary Clinton to get food to make ends meet.

But in terms of food storage, the food stored by the Clinton organization at this time can support everyone here for three to four months, and it is no surprise that she has emptied several large supermarkets and warehouses in Manhattan, and she has not stopped collecting food, and some armed men have been sent by her to the East and West rivers of Manhattan to fish, and the fresh fish will be distributed in a short time.

The United Nations headquarters is very close to the West River, of course, you can also drive a boat around the East River, and the East River and the West River in Manhattan are connected to the North Atlantic Ocean, and there must be fish and shrimp things, but if you say that these things alone are used to support these people at the United Nations Headquarters, it is obviously unrealistic, the survivors at this time are more than 3,000 people, and it will inevitably increase in the near future, and the daily consumption of food is massive, and there are indeed a lot of things that can be eaten in the river, but it is not so easy to hit them.

Unless you really go to sea, go to the deep sea for fishing operations, it is possible to fully feed everyone, but the deep sea operation cycle is long, the danger at sea is not smaller than on land, there is no weather forecast now, and a slightly larger wind and waves will make the fishing boat fall into a great crisis, and a storm, enough to destroy everything, these are predictable before the end of the world, and now, whether you can meet it depends on luck, and there is a more important point, fishing needs a big boat, a big ship can definitely be found, because New York is a coastal city, And there is the largest commercial port in the United States, and the real problem is fuel, and the fuel is really used a little less.

"Eat this."

In the dim light, Maniela sat next to Don Guy, her face was very hazy, she was talking, and handed two slices of bread with sauce to Don Guy, there were a lot of things in the bread, Don Guy put down the bowl with milk cereal in his hand, reached out and took the bread, put it to his mouth and took a big bite, closed his mouth and chewed slowly.

"How's it taste?" Maniela took the knife and cut the sausages on the plate, her head lowered and tilted slightly, looking at Don Ji and asking in a low voice.

"Yes, very good." Tang Ji nodded as he chewed something, and said vaguely.

Dada......

There was a very slight sound, and the duke, who had been squatting on the side of the sofa and eating dog food, jumped to Tang Ji's side, stepped back hard, put his two paws on Tang Ji's right leg, stuck out his tongue to look at the double-layered bag in Tang Ji's hand that had been bitten, and poked his head to look like he wanted to eat.

Although it didn't take long to see Tang Ji, the duke was not afraid of life at all, so he asked Tang Ji for something to eat.

Don Guy chewed the contents of his mouth twice, swallowed it, turned his head to look at the duke, left the bread with one hand, reached out and touched the duke's head, and the duke immediately looked up and stuck out his tongue to lick Don Quy's hand, because Don Quixy had some jam on his hand.

Tang Ji raised his hand to dodge, didn't let the duke lick himself, and didn't give the duke anything to eat, but turned his head to look at Christine and Kelly on the sofa opposite, and asked, "You often feed it these things?" Tang Ji shook the bread in his hand, and in addition to jam, the bread was also filled with sausages, ham and other things.

"Sometimes." Kelly looked at Tang Ji cautiously and whispered.

"Not often, sometimes it will be given, it usually eats dog food." Christine said from the side.

"Feed it less of these things in the future, and if it gets used to eating it, it will stop eating dog food." Tang Ji pursed his lips and licked the jam on the corner of his mouth and said.

Dog food is nutritious and rich in nutrients, but the vast majority of dog food people can't eat, only a small part can, because the hygiene standard of dog food is very low, and it can't be satisfied with humans, and people will get sick if they eat it.

The two little girls like the Duke the most, so they often tease the Duke with something that some people eat, and finally feed it, so to speak, some luxury, because now resources are very scarce, many people are not full or even have nothing to eat, of course, Tang Ji and others If they have been using what people eat to raise the Duke, of course, there is no problem, their food is enough, but this is obviously a waste, and feeding it indiscriminately is not necessarily good, dog food is more suitable for it, and the nutrition is sufficient, and it is not a disadvantage to treat it, and it can also be raised fat.

Don Guy didn't want the Duke to get addicted to things like sausages and ham, because then he would become hungry and really wouldn't eat dog food.

"The Duke is pitiful." Listening to Tang Ji's words, Kelly didn't say anything, nodded obediently, but Christine muttered in a low voice with an angry hum, she was still a little angry, not really because of Ba Song, but because of the afternoon.

Don Ji glanced at her, but pretended not to hear.

"Oh, by the way, did you answer the military radio half a month ago?" After making a loaf of bread for herself, Maniela, who was biting on the bread, suddenly released her mouth from the bread, looked at Don Ji and asked, and then stuffed the bread into her mouth and took a bite, watching Don Ji chew slowly.

"Say what?" Tang Ji replied casually, reaching for the canned fish.

"They said two things, the first, they said...... Because the zombie body is constantly affected by the virus, it has undergone wonderful changes and is undergoing transformation. Maniela said.

"Metamorphosis?" Don Ji paused in his hand for the canned fish, turned his head to look at Manila and asked rhetorically, and withdrew his hand.

"Uh-huh." Maniela nodded.

"Be more detailed." Tanji said as he reached out again, took the can of fish, and turned to look at Maniela.

"They have captured a lot of zombies before for [***] experiments, mainly to study vaccines, but they found that those zombies who are locked in cages, their bodies are constantly changing, just like what we saw, becoming thinner and thinner, and the color of the body surface has also changed, originally they thought they were hungry, and the gray color of the body is also the color that should appear over time after the human body dies and does not decay." Maniela paused as she spoke, picked up the quilt and took a sip of water, and watched Don Guy speak again.

"That's why they discovered the problem, and the actual situation is not what they originally thought, because zombies in the outside world have the opportunity to eat, eat meat...... That's us...... Humans, and some other animals, and the zombies they captured and locked up never ate anything, there should be a difference between the two, but they didn't find any difference, the zombies in the outside world are emaciated at almost the same rate as they were locked up, and then they captured the zombies at different times, killed the zombies and refrigerated them, and then conducted an autopsy study at the same time period. Maniela paused.

"And then?" Tang Ji asked.

Then they found out that the zombies were not starved and thin, they were constantly transforming, the zombies who died ten days apart from each other, and the zombies who died after the death were thinner, but the rigid muscles on the body became tougher, and the virus in the body was more infectious, and the data they initially released was that the bitten person would be transformed into a zombie within ten minutes to six hours, and according to their latest news half a month ago, this time has been shortened to seven minutes to four hours, and they also mentioned that this transformation of zombies has not yet been completed, They weren't sure when it would be completed, but they were sure that once the metamorphosis was complete, the mutation time of the infected person would be drastically shortened again, and there would be a fundamental change in the zombie's body. When Maniela finished, she lowered her head and rummaged through the contents of the bowl twice with her spoon, then looked up at Don Guy again.

"What has fundamentally changed, didn't they say?" Tang Ji looked at her and asked.

"Nope." Maniela shook her head.

Tang Ji slowly turned his head to look at his bowl, holding a spoon in his hand and stirring it unconsciously, his brows furrowed slightly, he fell into thought, there are some things he understands, there are two possibilities for the military to refuse to say what the fundamental change is, one is that they can't be sure for the time being, and the second is that it has been determined, but this change may make the zombies cause more damage to humans, in order to avoid aggravating the panic of the survivors, it will not be announced at this time, and it will only be said when the time is ripe.

"Isn't there one more thing? What is it? Don Ji thought and shook his head slightly, looked at Monica again and asked.

"The question of how long zombies can live."

"How long?"

"They weren't sure, but they said it would definitely take longer than we thought it would be, because zombies are so hard to starve to death." Maniela looked at Tang Ji and explained, paused, picked up the spoon and took a sip, and continued: "According to them, the zombie body consumption is very small, and the energy that a full meal can provide is enough to sustain their life for more than three months, of course, this is not the key to maintaining their life, because there are too many of them, there is not enough to eat at all, the key is ...... They get their energy from sunlight. ”

"Sunshine?" Don Guy asked in surprise.

"That's right, Sunshine." Maniela affirmed.

"How is that possible? It's not scientific! Tang Ji's brows furrowed even deeper.

"It's not scientific, the appearance of the zombie species is not scientific, it's not what I said." Maniela smiled helplessly, and continued: "I'm paraphrasing their words, they can come to this conclusion is more speculation than verification, they say that zombies will fall silent in the dark, they are reducing the consumption of the body, their bodies are cold, almost no thinking, everything is instinctive, so once they don't move, the body consumption will be reduced many times again, and during the day they will wander and roar, so that some specific cells and tissues in the body will remain active to absorb and transform light energy." ”

"Gone?"

"It's gone."

Tang Ji turned his head again, his expression full of confusion.

Can zombies absorb the energy produced by sunlight?

Are you kidding?

……

Knock knock!

Just halfway through the dinner, Tang Ji still looked worried, and suddenly remembered a knock on the door in the room, and everyone stopped their movements at once, and glanced at each other, with some wary and some doubtful eyes.

At this time of year, when the sky is at its darkest, who will visit?

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It's science fiction, it's science fiction, it's science fiction, it's science fiction...... This is not a popular science novel, on the issue of zombies, the reasonable party, the examination party, and the tangled party, you stop point, I beg you, I kneel for you, I said that I drank too much today, drank a lot, and drank a lot...... Currently severe dizziness, checked twice, if there are still typos or incoherent places, remember to remind me......