Early the next morning.

Zheng Jieming sat up from the bed in shock, constantly wheezing.

He had a nightmare in which he dreamed that his sister, Zheng Zhilan, had turned into a zombie and was chasing him. He kept running, but his sister kept chasing, and after catching up, Zheng Jieming couldn't cut her down, and finally she bit her throat and died.

Zheng Jieming was adjusting his breathing, and when he turned around, he was surprised to find that Geng Zhi was actually sitting at the foot of the bed. The figure startled him in the dim light, and then relieved him.

"Straightforward!! Are you awake? Zheng Jieming asked.

Geng Zhi didn't answer, his eyes were open, but they didn't look focused, they didn't look like anything.

Zheng Jieming felt very strange in his heart, he said that he didn't know whether Geng Zhi was conscious or unconscious now, and wanted to pat him on the shoulder tentatively. He jumped out of bed and walked over to the side of the upright bed.

Geng Zhi slowly raised his head and glanced at Zheng Jieming. Zheng Jieming noticed that this time the eyes were focused clearly, and it was clear that he was staring at Zheng Jieming.

"Are you awake? If conscious, nod and answer me? Zheng Jieming still maintained a vigilant posture, he was worried that Geng Zhi would suddenly pounce on him and bite him.

Geng Zhi nodded.

"Tell me something?" Zheng Jieming asked. His hanging heart finally relaxed, wanting to see if Geng Zhi could speak normally.

Geng Zhi shook his head weakly, and fell back on the bed with a pop.

Seeing this, Zheng Jieming opened the door and beckoned Wang Xinrui and Hua Feng from the next room to come into the house to check.

Xue Yongti's room was not far away, and when he heard the sound, he also opened the door and walked out, entering the room where Zheng Jieming was.

"Geng Zhi woke up just now!" Zheng Jieming said, "He is conscious, I asked him if he nodded if he was awake, and he nodded." But then it fell again. ”

"Has he been in a coma?" Xue Yongti asked casually.

"Yes." Zheng Jieming didn't care, and replied casually.

"Looks like you're suffering from this disease too." Xue Yongti said casually.

The three of them glanced at Xue Yongti in unison, and asked at the same time, "What disease?!" ”

Xue Yongti glanced at Zheng Jieming, "When I was in the District Government's Office, there were originally a total of thirty-eight colleagues, but within a few days, a few people began to have abnormalities, they couldn't sleep at night, but they weren't sleepy at all during the day, and then these people fell into a coma. One is dead, one is transformed, and the rest are in a coma. ”

"What disease? Do you know the situation? Is there no one who has recovered his sanity? What's going on with the corpses!? Zheng Jieming looked at Xue Yongti with some anxiety.

"I don't know if you ask me, we don't know the pathology of these people's diseases, but everyone speculates that the mechanism of zombies may be similar. Do you think, in this state of zombies, don't they look like people who have lost their minds in sleepwalking? Xue Yongti said.

"What do you mean...... The so-called zombies are people who are sleepwalking? Hua Bong asked with some disgust, didn't this mean that all the "living people" they had killed before?

"It's not so evil, if you become a zombie, you should still be dead, I think, it's a bit like a relationship between consciousness and who calls the shots. Normal people, conscious. But once you die, your consciousness is occupied by the consciousness of a zombie and you become a zombie. Xue Yongti looked at Geng Zhi and continued, "And those who get their kind of illness seem to be when they are alive, the consciousness of the living person has confronted the consciousness of the zombie, and thus falls into a coma. ”

Zheng Jieming, Hua Feng, and Wang Xinrui listened to these assumptions expounded by Xue Yongti in surprise, and each of them carefully verified the possibility of this idea in their minds.

What he said may have a point, Geng Zhi may now be engaged in a "one-man war" in his heart. Zheng Jieming thought to himself.

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And at this time, Geng Zhi is indeed living in a dream.

He didn't even know he was in a coma.

He thought he was awake at all!!

He was in the ruins of a city that was even more dilapidated than the northern city he had seen before.

The sun in the sky seemed to grow bigger and hotter, hanging in the air like a huge disc of fire. On the ground, all the buildings are just rubble.

Walking alone on the rubble, fearless of the hot weeds growing tenaciously from the rubble, and then in less than an hour, he was roasted to death by the sun in the sky, and before he died, it seemed that the seeds were born from the roots of the grass. After some time, weeds reappeared.

He was alone and at the same time he was not.

He always felt that someone was following him, but every time he turned around, that person disappeared. He couldn't tell what the man was, he thought it was a ghost, haunting him like a shadow.

Geng Zhi wanted to speak, but he couldn't say it at all, his throat was very thirsty, and from time to time there would suddenly be a burst of rain falling from the sky, so he raised his head, stuck out his tongue, and greedily accepted this little rain moisture―――――― where did he know that this was Zheng Jieming and others forcibly pouring water to drink!

A bunch of figures suddenly appeared in front of him, and he nervously hid behind the ruins. He didn't know what those figures were, he just felt that they were terrifying, they had to be avoided, he had to hide in the ruins.

Sometimes, Zheng Jieming and others would help Geng Zhi up and move his body to prevent him from being in a coma for a long time and his body was paralyzed.

At this time, Geng Zhi will think that there is an earthquake in his dream, he will feel that in his world, all the rubble is flying, suspended in the sky, and those strange figures who have been chasing him will suddenly pounce in front of him, tearing his face, hands and feet, and biting all the places where his body has been numb.

Sometimes, he would feel that he was being bitten by a monster in the mouth, and he would throw it around, and finally the monster would let go and throw it to the side, and he would lie down quietly again, or stand up quietly, and move forward without anything.

"What world am I in?" The more time passed, the more strange Geng Zhi felt, and he began to ask himself in his heart.

"Am I alive or dead?" The only thing he didn't doubt was whether he was in a dream or in reality.

In the dream, he felt that everything was realistic and taken for granted, and never questioned all this.

But in the blur, he still felt that he could hear the people around him.

It wasn't until this day, when he was in the center of the dream and looked up at the huge sun in the sky, that he suddenly thought of one thing in a trance: Shouldn't the sun be so big? With such a big sun, the world should have been destroyed a long time ago, right?!

This questioning made him sit up from the bed in shock, and after just a few minutes of regaining his senses, he even saw Zheng Jieming's figure in front of him. He felt that Zheng Jieming's face was very familiar, but he couldn't remember the identity of the other party anyway.

At this time, he felt a dark shadow lying behind him, constantly calling him softly, "You should wake up, this is a dream...... The person you're talking to in front of you is just a dream of yours...... You're going back to the world you just ......."

Geng Zhi finally couldn't hold it anymore, and fell down again, returning to the world where the sun was incomparably huge.

That's right, it's the end of the world, how can there be human beings? Geng Zhi explained to himself reasonably in his dreams.

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"Mr. Xue, if what you said is true, it means that all of them are likely to fall into a coma. If your inference is correct, can we assume that Gengzhi, who is now unconscious, is actually having some kind of struggle going on in his mind? Zheng Jieming put forward his own ideas.

"Maybe. We haven't tried it before, but we've suggested that if we keep calling out to someone in a coma, I wonder if we'll wake him up. It's just that our wave of people are all politicians who have no relationship with each other, and no one will have the energy and heart to do this. Xue Yongti put forward the "treatment plan" he had been envisioning, "If this person still has a certain consciousness, he should be able to hear it." ”

Zheng Jieming recalled violently that when he talked to Geng Zhi just now, he reacted!

Zheng Jieming immediately turned his head and began to speak to Geng Zhi.

"Geng Zhi, can you hear me?" Zheng Jieming asked, and then immediately changed his words, "Geng Zhi, I know you can hear it, I don't care what kind of sweet dream you are having now, but you have to wake up immediately, you should return to reality." Although the reality is cruel, we need you to face it together! ”

Zheng Jieming said a lot, Geng Zhi still didn't open his eyes, Zheng Jieming looked up at Hua Feng, and said, "You also come to talk, all of us, anyway, there is not much that everyone needs to do now, everyone takes turns to talk to him until he wakes up." ”

"Will there be any side effects?" Wang Xinrui felt that this method might be feasible, but she was still a little confused.

"Yes, dry mouth." Zheng Jieming replied.

Hua Feng also continued to speak to Geng Zhi, "Geng Zhi, you have to come to your senses, we need you to come to your senses, you have to find your consciousness, although the northern city is still very chaotic now, but we have a base, we are no longer in the cemetery, you get up and take a look!" ”

"Since he has no other diseases and no obvious external injuries, as long as his consciousness is unlocked, he should be able to wake up!" Xue Yongti said.

Zheng Jieming turned his head to look at Geng Zhi carefully, and suddenly leaned in front of his ear and shouted loudly:

"Geng Zhi!! Wake me up!! We've been attacked!! Come and help everyone!! ”

Geng's straight eyes opened suddenly.