Around eight o'clock in the morning, inside the lakeside villa.

For breakfast, it won't be so formal, and Laura doesn't need to be too busy, just make some toast, and everyone doesn't get together when they eat, or nest on the sofa, or simply eat while busy with their own things, Evan has this habit.

In front of the big screen in the living room of the villa, a couch, two small coffee tables, Christine nested on the sofa, wearing pajamas in the shape of a little monster, looking up cross-legged at the big screen hanging on the wall in front of her, and on the small coffee table in front of her, there were bread, sardines and other food, but she never moved.

The large screen shows a total of sixty-four small screens, the picture in the lower left corner shows the scene of the basement, usually the camera is facing Tang Ji's experimental table, you can see Tang Ji's busy scene, but not today, Tang Ji adjusted the camera, the lens has been pointing at the iron cage where the zombie is held, and you can see that the zombie's body is trembling slightly.

Christine's eyes were swollen like a peach, she cried all night yesterday, because of the biological clock, so she still got up at eight o'clock, and hurriedly ran down to find the duke, but learned that Tang Ji had taken the duke out early, so she had been sitting in front of the big screen, hoping to see the duke.

"What's wrong with you?" Megan, who was wearing a fat coat and looked a little sloppy, with instant noodles in her hand and chewing in her mouth, walked to the sofa and sat down, turned her head to look at Christine and asked.

"Duke, I want a duke...... Woo ......" Christine replied twice as she looked at the big screen, then curled up on the couch with her hands on her knees, buried her head between her legs and cried.

"Oh, I'm sorry!" Megan's voice was slightly lower, she picked up the instant noodles in the bowl with a fork, took a bite into her mouth, raised her head while chewing, and looked at the big screen.

She hadn't carefully looked at the specific places monitored by the camera before, and she had seen it roughly before, there were too many places to monitor, and today was the first time to look at this big screen so seriously, she had lived here for more than ten years, and she was very familiar with this place, so it was easy to see which places were being monitored on the screen.

"Huh?" Megan, who was looking at the big screen, was suddenly stunned, her eyes widened a little, and then with a "poof", she squirted out all the instant noodles chewed in her mouth, and the sprayed sofa carpet was everywhere.

"You're raising zombies?" Megan said blankly as she looked at the big screen, noticing the small screen in the lower left corner.

"Huh?" Christine raised her head and looked at Megan with tears on her face, turned her head to look at the things that were spit on the glass tea set, covered her mouth, nodded, and started in a slurred voice: "There is only one!" ”

Megan looked at the screen for a while, then slowly lowered her head, saw the mess on the coffee table, hurriedly stood up, and said: "I'm sorry, I'll clean up immediately, oh God, it's disgusting......" As she spoke, Megan put the instant noodle bowl in her hand on the coffee table, turned her head and ran in the direction of the kitchen, she was going to get a rag, broom and other things, but just ran two steps, only to hear a bang, a sofa chair was kicked crooked, and Megan fell to the ground, rolling with her left foot, and said quickly: "Pain, pain, pain... …”

On the sofa, Christine, who was curled up, covered her mouth, Ben couldn't stop crying, but looked at Meghan and laughed.

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Underground laboratory.

Tang Ji took the syringe and slowly walked to the duke's side and squatted down, and scratched the duke's belly with his left hand, and the duke's face immediately showed a comfortable expression, haha stuck out his tongue, and his tail shook as if flattering.

"Good boy!" Tang Ji slowly stroked the hair on the duke's body, making the duke lie on his side, and turned his head to look at the camera in the depths of the laboratory as he spoke, he remembered that he had adjusted it, but he was afraid that it was a wrong memory, so he watched it again, he was afraid that some people would see things they shouldn't see.

The duke's body became softer and softer, and it looked like he was enjoying it, and he grabbed it under his armpit again, and it raised its claws, trying to grab it in a moving way, of course, it was the kind of play, but Tang Ji suddenly grabbed the skin of the duke's armpit with little hair, and pierced the syringe with a very thin needle on his right hand, and then quickly pulled it out, and then threw away the syringe and held the duke down.

The duke snorted and looked at Tang Ji with very aggrieved eyes again, and Tang Ji hurt it.

"Lie down here and don't move, good!" Tang Ji stroked the duke's hair, soothed in his mouth, then stood up and slowly retreated.

“…… Five, six, seven......" Tang Ji silently recited the number in his heart, slowly pushed him to stand four meters away from the duke, turned around and leaned against the cabinet, which contained not only a backpack containing food, but also a full set of weapons and equipment, and a shotgun that had been loaded with bullets was placed on the outermost.

The duke has a chain around his neck, and the other end of the chain is tied to the fence gate, the metal chain is matched with the metal fence gate, it can't break free when it becomes a zombie dog, but Tang Ji still has to be careful to prevent accidents.

Leaning against the cabinet, Tang Ji raised his hand and rubbed his nose, and kept looking at the duke, the minimum limit of fifteen seconds has passed, and in the next two hours, the duke may die and become a zombie dog, but it may also be fine at all, because Tang Ji only used a small amount of zombie blood on the duke, whether these blood can be fatal is not easy to say, everything will have to wait for two hours to know, but Tang Ji is at least half sure that the duke should be fine.

Standing by the cabinet and looking at it for a while, the Duke was still the same, nothing had changed, so Tang Ji pulled a chair and placed it on the ground four meters away from the Duke, and then sat on it himself, placing a shotgun horizontally on his legs, Tang Ji leaned over slightly, his elbows pressed against his knees, holding a notebook in his left hand and a pen in his right hand, and his eyes observed the Duke.

For the first hour, the Duke did not show any unusual reactions, first lying on the ground honestly, and soon after getting up to bite the fence gate and dog chain, then wagging his tail and sticking out his tongue at Don Quixy, as if trying to get Don Ji to let go of him, and finally lying on the ground, closing his eyes and looking asleep.

An hour before and an hour after that, at the beginning, the sleeping duke suddenly opened his eyes, began to breathe slightly rapidly, looked a little uneasy, and made a humming sound from his mouth, as if he was sick, and this phenomenon lasted for about seven minutes, and then he stood up again in good spirits, and continued to fight with the dog chain, which he had been trying to bite, but all this time, it had not succeeded.

For two whole hours, Don Guy sat in his chair and watched the duke, without speaking, without drinking, with full attention, and recorded everything the duke had done for these two hours, including holding the normal behavior.

At about 10:15 in the morning, Tang Ji, who was sitting in a chair, raised his hand and glanced at his watch, two hours and ten minutes had passed since the zombie virus was used on the duke, and the duke was still a pet dog duke, a pure-blooded German pastor, and had not become a zombie dog.

"Good dog." With a faint smile on his face, Tang Ji stood up and muttered, put his notebook, pen, and gun on the table beside him, took out a brand new syringe from his pocket, and walked towards the duke.

The duke, who was lying on the door and biting the dog's chain, stopped suddenly, looked at Tang Ji with a pair of big eyes, as if Tang Ji had discovered that he was doing something bad, and slowly put down the paws on the door, and then it noticed the syringe in Tang Ji's hand, and immediately showed a very frightened look, and slowly lay on the ground, his entire chin was pressed to the ground, and his wagging tail was also put down.

The dog is an animal with a good memory, and the Duke has been pricked twice in a short period of time, and it knows that it will hurt him if he holds that thing in his hand, so he is a little scared.

This time the blood draw went surprisingly well, and after getting a tube of the duke's blood, Tang Ji touched the duke's hair and said, "This is good!" ”

Holding the syringe to the side, Tang Ji took another can of canned food, opened the lid and walked to the duke to put it down, and then walked to the innermost part of the laboratory to start a new round of testing.

At night, at 6:20, the hall of the villa was bright.

"It's time to eat, Jason, you go and tell Kelly to come down, Hanny, go to the small building and call your brother back...... Come here, it's time to eat! Laura put the food in her hand on the large coffee table and beckoned around.

Soon after, a total of seventeen people gathered around the large coffee table in the hall to start today's dinner.

"What about Don? Where is he? Who went to him? Laura, who picked up the knife and fork, looked around and wondered, there were eighteen people here, seventeen of them were at the coffee table, which meant that no one called Tangji.

"He doesn't eat, he plans to live in the laboratory, he eats and lives there, he told me and Manila last night, we don't care about him, he can take care of himself." Monica cut the venison on the plate in front of her, and her eyes swept over the people around the coffee table.

"Why would he do this?" Laura was stunned for a moment, looked at Monica and asked.

"Uh-huh......" Monica picked up a piece of venison with a fork, put it in her mouth and chewed it, shaking her head in a nasal voice that could be understood as "I don't know".

"Maybe we don't know him yet." On the side, Manila shook her head slightly and looked at the roast venison on the plate and said in a low voice, the venison is delicious, but Manila has no appetite.

There was a snack for dinner today, because during the day Megan went hunting in the forest, and with her were Robbie, Sarah, Alain and others, and she successfully hunted a ninety-kilogram white-tailed deer, and this was not the only trophy.

The white-tailed deer is the most widely distinguished deer species in the world, especially common in the forests of the eastern United States, and is said to be the most abundant ungulate, numbering as many as 28 million individuals.

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Time passes, day by day, and in the last days, as long as you choose the right place, you can easily live a peaceful life.

The appearance of the three of Megan did not bring disaster consequences to Tang Ji and others, as the two sides came into contact more and more, they gradually integrated into this big family, Alain's surname is soft like a girl, and he has a good relationship with Denzel, and Denzel, he is very fat, but he can dance hip-hop, and soon became friends with Jason, as for Megan, she can be described as a mess in other aspects except for the accuracy of the bow and arrow, and even more confused than Christine in some aspects, and talks a lot, Often do things that make people laugh.

On October 31, 2015, the 164th day of the outbreak of the end times, the 38th day of the Duke of Tangy taking him into the laboratory, one day before Halloween.

If there is no end times, this day will be a day of revelry in the United States, where people will dress up as various legendary ghosts for revelry, and there will be a grand parade in New York, and there will be a night of hustle and bustle.

However, the end of the world is coming, and the vast majority of survivors are still in fear, no food, no stability, no heart to celebrate the arrival of the festival, but there are a small number of survivors, although they are still worried about the crisis that zombies may bring, but they have begun to enjoy life.

For more than thirty days, Tang Ji was not completely without contact with everyone, on the contrary, he had more contact, from the day after Tang Ji took the Duke into the underground laboratory, he also began to train for survival in the wild, but usually, he was taught alone, because his schedule was different from others, and he also needed to return to the laboratory from time to time.

Pa Song, Muay Thai king, the world's top martial artist, believes in Thai Buddhism, and his surname is not arrogant or impatient.

These days, he is the one that Tang Ji has the most contact with, and Ba Song is in charge of Tang Ji's physical training and martial arts ability training, because he has received the most professional teaching, and it is not difficult for him to transfer what he has learned to Tang Ji, but it is difficult for Tang Ji.

That's right, Tang Ji has already started to learn Muay Thai, and in just one month, he has developed a body of fighting muscles, with sharp edges and corners all over his body, but when he wears clothes, he still looks very thin, and like Ba Song, this is not an incredible thing, Tang Ji can train muscles entirely because of a book, called "Train a Body of Muscles Around You", the author is Adam. Campbell, a National Magazine Award winner, holds a master's degree in exercise physiology, and is a certified coach with the American Strength and Conditioning Association.

Of course, what is written in the book is one thing, and whether he can really practice it is another, but obviously, Tang Ji succeeded, and he paid too much sweat for this, and of course, Ba Song's guidance was indispensable.

Aside from his muscles, he is not in a hurry to train in Muay Thai, because it hurts his body and is prone to injury, and he doesn't expect to become a martial arts master like Ba Song, but just wants to be more capable of self-preservation.

In addition to combat training, Tang Ji also conducted marksmanship training, as well as asked Monica for knife skills and killing skills, combat training and killing skills seem to be repeated, but in fact they are completely different things, Ba Song is a top martial artist, he can kill quickly with his bare hands because he is too strong, and he also breaks people's necks, he can kick and break with an elbow, why twist?

But other people can't, not as powerful as him, such as Don Guy, so some professional killing skills are also included in Don Guy's learning category, the coach is of course Monica, here is only she is a killer in the real sense, has received professional killing training, Robbie is not, although he has also done assassination, but only a gunman.

One month and eight days, Tang Ji lived a very fulfilling life, often tired like a dead dog, but he made great progress in all aspects.

Although he had a lot of contact with everyone during the day, Tang Ji still solved the dinner alone, usually he would return to the laboratory at dusk and not come out, and sleep in it at night, he had promised Monica and Manila that he would find time to be with them, but he broke his promise, at least for now, for more than a month, he has never returned to sleep in the master bedroom on the second floor of the villa.

Because of this, Monica and Manila, who lack Don Quixo's comfort, also do some things to comfort each other to dispel the loneliness caused by "no man" for a long time.

Halloween.

At seven o'clock in the night, the sky was dark, the moonlight was bright, and the lakeside villa was decorated with a festive atmosphere, the weather was already very cold, but the villa was very warm, and the fireplace was blazing.

"Bang Bang, is it good-looking?" Megan ran down the stairs and jumped onto the couch in the living room, her mouth sounding the soundtrack of the important characters appearing, and she asked in a circle looking at the people in the living room who had dressed up or had not yet dressed.

Megan and Meghan were wearing a red robe, a red hat, and a small empty basket hanging in the crook of her left arm.

"What are you...... Santa Claus? How do you not have a beard? Next to the sofa, Christine, dressed as a witch in a black robe, raised her head and looked at Megan suspiciously with a "magic wand" and asked.

"Santa Claus?" Meghan's eyes widened, she asked rhetorically, looked down at her clothes, looked up at Christine again, and said, "I'm obviously dressed as Little Red Riding Hood!" ”

"Little Red Riding Hood? Ha ha...... I'm sorry...... Sorry I didn't see that...... Haha......" Christine couldn't hold back, covering her mouth and laughing as she spoke.

"Laughing at what?" Hanny, dressed as a little devil, walked over, holding a steel fork in her hand, looked at Christine with a smile and asked, then turned her head to look at Megan, and immediately said in surprise: "Wow, it's not Christmas yet, why are you dressed up as Santa Claus?" What about your beard? ”

"Hahaha...... I can't...... Hahahaha......" Christine's laughter next to Hanny reached a new level, and she lay on the stall without an image, looking like she was about to die of laughter.

Megan, who was standing on the sofa, raised her hand to cover her forehead, and she felt a little headache.

"Hey! Give a bit, hi! Give the bit! Look at the big screen, there is a situation! Dressed as a skeleton and sitting in front of the computer, Evan took off the mask on his face, stood up, and still looked at the computer in front of him, but screamed in his mouth.

Everyone in the living room looked at Evan, and immediately listened to him, looked at the huge screen hanging on the wall of the living room, and slowly walked over to gather together.

"Number 37, there's something there!" Aiwen's voice reached everyone's ears again, and everyone who hadn't seen anything before looked at screen 37, because it was night, although the camera could see at night, the picture on the screen was still a little unclear, showing the scene by the lake.

"It's too far...... It's so small...... Is that...... Zombie? Do any of us dress up as zombies today? Christine frowned at the screen and said intermittently.

"Don said yesterday that you can dress up as anything tonight, but you can't dress up as a zombie......" Monica, who was dressed as a vampire, turned her head to look at Christine, paused, looked at the screen again, and said, "That's true!" ”

“7、12、16、17、22、34、51…… Damn, how can this be, we are surrounded by zombies! Aven's excited voice reached everyone's ears.

On the screen, zombies emerge from the dark forest and slowly walk towards the huge courtyard outside the lakeside villa. (To be continued.) )