22. Enter

"I knew they were going to get this shot!" After hearing the gunshot, Dale, who was driving, said to Luffy, who was sitting in the passenger seat, "But I thought they would let you come, Luther." After all, you've just joined our camp, and you're not familiar with our people, shooting at the corpse of a stranger who is about to turn into a zombie, I don't think you have any pressure, do you? ”

"Huh! What the? Dale, what did you just say? I didn't expect Dale to suddenly talk to himself, and Luffy, who was in a daze, paused for a moment before turning around.

"I said, why don't they let you do it?" After Dale repeated his words, Dale spoke again.

"I don't know!" After hearing Dell's question, Luffy thought about it, and didn't know why he didn't let himself do it, but after Luffy Yang thought about it again, he said strangely: "Dell, why do you have to let me do it?" As far as I know, Rick only came to camp a day earlier! ”

Dale laughed, "Although Rick has only been in the camp for less than 2 days, his friend and his wife have been with us for a long time!" So in our hearts, we also agree with Rick. ”

"Huh." Hearing Dale say this, Luffy Yang could only shake his head and smile speechlessly.

While Luffy Yang was talking to Dale, Rick and the others also caught up from behind, and Sean, who was sitting in the passenger seat, reached out from the window and signaled to Dale, and then led the way to the front.

At this time, far away in the basement of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, in a circular hall, a haggard-faced man drank a sip of strong coffee and began to record his work. Sitting in front of the computer's camera, the man said to the screen, "This is Dr. Jenner, the last ADC staff member alive." Today is the 194th day since the wildfires were planned and the 63rd day since the virus broke out. There is still no progress in the development of an antidote. ”

"I finally turned off the radiation protection in the eastern side to save electricity. I wish I had turned off these machines sooner, but it took me a long time to figure out what they do, but unfortunately I don't know much about it, otherwise I could have saved a lot of electricity. ”

After another sip of coffee, Jenner frowned and continued: "Recently, my sleep quality has been very poor, and my schedule and rest are not regular. The disadvantage of living underground is that you don't know day and night at all, and your biological clock becomes confused. ”

After saying this, Jenner turned off the camera that was being filmed, and used the program to mark the name of the recorded file, and then sent the recorded data to the headquarters host.

"The highest level of the wildfire program, 3471, has been activated, and the signal transmission has been terminated."

Looking at the line of letters on the screen, Jenner put on a full set of biochemical protection suits and walked into a well-protected laboratory after sitting and drinking his coffee. When the cells isolated from a piece of meat collected from a human being a zombie were placed under a microscope for observation, the bulky chemical protective suit knocked over a bottle of corrosive liquid under the experimental table, and the fallen bottle just fell on the piece of meat collected from the zombie.

Jenner's expression changed dramatically, and this piece of meat was the last piece of meat he had collected from the man who had just turned into a zombie. If this piece of meat is destroyed, he will never have such a fresh sample for testing and research in the future, and other samples collected from zombies will always decay very quickly, not as long as this one.

Desperate to save this last specimen, Jenner used his gloved hands to remove the piece of meat from the liquid. But soon Jenner sensed that something was wrong, and smoke was already starting to rise from his gloves, and after putting the pieces of meat aside, he looked at his hands. I saw that the places where his hands and gloves touched the pieces of flesh were corroded at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Jenner, who was worried about the destruction of the sample just now, is now worried about himself, and the source of this piece of meat Jenner knows very well that it is a zombie. And the contagiousness of the virus carried by zombies, Jenner is also very clear, if he doesn't take off his gloves, when the liquid on the gloves corrodes the gloves, he will not be far from the day when he will become a zombie.

At this time, a shrill alarm sounded in the laboratory, followed by a warning from the central computer: "Warning! Warn! The air detector has detected a reappearance of corrosive fumes in the air, please leave immediately! Inhalation of this corrosive gas can be fatal! ”

"Warning! Warn! The air detector has detected a reappearance of corrosive fumes in the air, please leave immediately! Inhalation of this corrosive gas can be fatal! ”

After taking off his gloves, Jenner quickly rushed out of the door, and only walked out of the laboratory after being drenched in disinfectant by the sprinkler head hidden behind the door. In a sealed cabin outside the lab, Jenner was poisoned again. Amid the shrill siren, the voice of the central computer continued: "All personnel have left, and a full disinfection procedure will be carried out below!" ”

After hearing the voice of the central computer, Jenner turned around and stuck to the door of the laboratory and shouted, "Don't! ”

Unfortunately, what responded to Jenner was the fire that came out of the entire laboratory, and Jenner, who was attached to the door of the laboratory, could only watch in vain as everything in the laboratory was destroyed by the heat.

In front of the computer where the work record was recorded, Jenner, who was pouring a wine glass, sat in front of the computer and said calmly: "Experimental sample No. 19 has been completely destroyed, which is undoubtedly a heavy loss. This is the freshest sample we've taken so far, and the other samples we've collected can't be compared to Sample 19, they've all been necrotic, they've fallen off, and we've collected useless necrotic tissue. ”

At this point, Jenner sighed. I don't know if it's because he was drinking too quickly, Jenner's eyes flickered, and he looked at the computer in front of him fixedly and said, "I don't even know why I'm talking to you about this!" I bet you don't even see a shadow of one of those damn mongrels out there right now. Isn't it? ”

As he spoke, Jenner brought his eyes closer to the camera and said, "Isn't it?" ”

After a while, Jenner suddenly reacted, he was too stupid to stare at a computer, and stood up and said, "Forget it, what am I doing here?" And you're blind? ”

After standing dumbfounded for a while, Jenner said, "I think I'll kill myself with one shot tomorrow!" I'm going to go crazy sooner or later by being here all day! But that's going to be said tomorrow. If I don't get drunk today, I won't stop. ”

After playing, Jenner poured himself a large sip of wine again. It wasn't until he had drunk most of the entire bottle that Jenner tossed his glass into the distance as if he were a baseball pitcher. Then he exclaimed excitedly, "yes, I'm out of the field." ”

Just when Jenner was going crazy with alcohol, Luffy and the others had already come to the outside of the CDC under the leadership of Rick. As far as the eye could see, there were corpses all over the ground, and positions piled up with sandbags. Looking like they had just experienced the war with the CDC, Rick's hope rose in their hearts.

Although Luffy Yang also said that those people in the nursing home have been here, there is still a big difference between what he hears and what he sees with his own eyes. Walking through the corpses all over the ground, Luffy and his entourage came to the downstairs of the CDC, and what was reassuring was that the door of the CDC building was closed, and in despair, the door of the CDC building was closed.

When Luffy and the others passed through the square in front of the CDC, the CDC's central computer found them, so Jenner, who was hiding underground and getting drunk, saw Luffy and them on the surveillance.

Watching Rick and them try to open the closed roller shutter outside the door of the building and argue, a voice in Jenner's heart, who has lived underground for a long time, asked Jenner to let Rick and them in, but another voice told him that the CDC's rules did not allow this to be done, and unrelated personnel could not be allowed to enter.

When Rick and the others nervously wanted to open the door of the CDC, the sound of their quarrel attracted the attention of the zombies, and gradually the figures of active zombies appeared behind them.

Don't dare to shoot, for fear that the sound of gunfire will attract more zombies.

Sean said, "Rick, there's no one here!" We should go to Fort Benning. ”

But Rick was convinced that there were people in the CDC, and he said, "Then why is the shutter locked here?" ”

Daryl shot the zombie behind him with an arrow, and yelled at Rick, "You have led us to a dead end, here he. Damn, there is no one at all, and there is no antidote. ”

Luffy Yang pulled Daryl and said, "Daryl, Rick's decision is not wrong, we came here to try our luck, if we are lucky, the threat of zombies will not be so great in the future." We ......"

After being stopped outside the door of the CDC for so long, and there were zombies behind him, Daryl was also impatient, and impatiently interrupted Luffy's words and said, "This decision is he. Damn it's a bad decision! ”

Sean was also furious and shouted at Daryl, "Shut up! ”

Then he turned to Rick, who was still in front of the CDC gate, and said, "Rick, this is a dead end, do you hear me?" ”

Rick's wife, Lori, hugged her son tightly and said nervously, "They're right, Rick! It's getting dark now, and this place is close to the city, it's easy to be surrounded by zombies, so we should be here right away. ”

"So where can we go?" Seeing that the sky was gradually darkening, the door of the CDC could not be opened, and Rick was also skeptical of his own judgment.

Sean, who was already irritated and spun around in place, immediately said, "Rick, we should go to Fort Benning." ”

The white-haired Dale, who knew the most about the vehicles in the camp, said to Sean from behind, "How to get there?" There is no food, no gas, and there is still 100 kilometers away. ”

After shooting another zombie with a crossbow, Daril said, "It's 125 kilometers, I've checked the map." ”

"Go to his Fort Benning!" The black man also said nervously: "The most important thing now is how we spend tonight!" ”

The group decided to leave the CDC with the door closed and zombies attacking behind them. As for where to spend the night, we have to wait until we leave here to discuss. After Rick didn't open the door at the CDC for so long, he was already disappointed in this place, so he no longer insisted on staying here.

When Rick, who turned back one step at a time, was about to leave, Jenner from the underground of the CDC saw that Rick was leaving, so he moved the direction of health outside the gate. The change in the direction of the surveillance happened to be seen by Rick, and he immediately stopped the people who were about to leave: "Wait, don't go yet!" There are people inside. ”

"There's no one in there, Rick!" Before Rick's words could be spoken, Sean immediately said, "We've been waiting for us for so long......"

Without waiting for Sean to continue, Rick said, "I just saw the camera on the gate move!" ”

Hearing Rick's words, although everyone didn't notice where the camera was looking at at the beginning, if the CDC really had someone, the group wouldn't have to run to other places. What's more, now that this camera is within Luffy's sensing range, the change in the direction of the camera has also been sensed by Luffy.

Therefore, Luffy Yang opened his mouth and said: "This camera is moving, and when we first came over, the direction it monitored was not the current direction. ”

With Luffy's support, Rick brought everyone back to the door of the CDC. Looking at the door that never opened, Rick slammed his fist on the door and shouted, "I know you're inside!" Please help us, we have women and children here. There was no food, and the gasoline was running out of ....... Please! ”

Looking at the excited Rick on the screen, Jenner sat down. His eyes were fixed on the screen, and his face was changing. And just when Jenner hesitated, there were more and more zombies behind everyone, and everyone first had hope in their hearts, but they gradually became desperate, Sean came over and grabbed Rick and said, "Rick, there is no one in there." It's just automatics, it's time for us to go! ”

Rick pushed Sean away, slammed his fist on the roller shutter again, and said to the camera, "If you don't let us in, you're hurting us!" Please. ”

When the situation became more and more urgent, Sean grabbed Rick and dragged him away, saying, "Brother, let's go!" ”

Dragged by Sean, Rick was still hissing and shouting at the camera, "Please help us!" You are trying to kill us, and you can't see death without help. ”

Rick was also disappointed in the door that had not reacted, and after being dragged away by Sean, Rick pushed Sean's hand away, looked back at the camera fiercely, and was about to leave.

At this time, Jenner looked at the children in Rick's group and the zombies gathered nearby on the screen, and finally gritted his teeth and pressed the button to open the door of the CDC.

And Rick and they were about to turn to leave, when bright lights suddenly shot out from behind them, and at the same time, they also heard the sound of the roller shutter opening behind them, and Luffy was about to take a step as if they were magical, and they couldn't move anymore.