Chapter 41: Death and Mutation
This is the first time Liu Chang has seen Li Qingshui have such emotional movements and speak in such a strong tone. In the past, Li Qingshui was always the same as his name, with a calm and calm appearance, and he was talking with such excitement, Liu Chang felt that his words were definitely not just for others, but more like an emotional hypnosis for himself.
"It seems that he is also under moral pressure." Liu Chang sighed, threw away the cigarette butt and returned to the dormitory.
Opening the door and crossing the aisle, Liu Chang sat back on his bed again, and after resting for less than a moment, the door to the dormitory was opened again - this time it was two soldiers and Xiao Yong's mother who came in.
After the latter came in, he pointed to the bed next to Liu Chang and shouted: "Oh, that's it, everyone has been dead for more than two hours, and it stinks, so I don't care!" I asked her to bury the body, but she wouldn't want to. Tell me, how can there be a reason why this person is not buried when he dies? Not to mention the stinking sky, if there is any infectious disease or something like that, who would dare to live in this house? ”
Hearing Xiao Yong's mother shouting, Liu Chang raised his head and looked at the young woman next to him, only to see that her body trembled after hearing this, and finally spoke.
"I just want to spend time with my mom again." As she spoke, the woman glanced at the corpse that had begun to "bubble" again.
"This young lady." After the two soldiers entered, one of them sighed and said, "We can understand your desire to spend more time with your family, but now we really don't have so many scruples, please leave the body to us to dispose of." As you know, 'after a great calamity, there will be a great plague', and it is really easy to cause a plague when corpses are piled up. ”
"Regarding the situation of dead people everywhere in the barracks in recent days, we have received instructions from our superiors. These bodies are to be cremated compulsorily, I hope you can understand. After the two soldiers finished speaking, they looked at the young woman, waiting for her to move.
But after waiting for nearly two minutes, and seeing that the other party still had no intention of getting up and getting out of the way, one of them stepped forward and pushed the woman aside, while the other stepped forward and dragged her mother's body.
"Woo......" The girl did not struggle in the soldier's arms, but she began to cry out loud, her voice whimpering, not loud, but there were strings of tears in her sunken eyes.
The other soldier didn't look at her too much, didn't say much, stepped forward and grabbed the corpse's foot and neck with his rubber-gloved hand, and moved the corpse sideways to the side of the bed with a twitch and a pull, looking very professional - apparently he had dealt with a lot of similar things in the last few days.
But just as he was skillfully lifting the body and preparing to move it away, the old man surnamed the man on the other side of the body suddenly moved.
His body twitched, and he turned his face to look at the soldier who was about to carry away his wife's body, and then his eyes rolled, staring at her old wife's body, and tears welled up in his eyes. After staring at him for a moment, his mouth opened wide, and his throat let out the usual "ah-" sound, which was particularly loud and long.
Hearing this voice, Liu Chang knew that he was going to die too, this was the last breath of the dead before he died, and when the breath was exhausted, the person would not be able to do it.
Sure enough, when the old man's breath was at the end, he made a hiccup-like sound, and then tilted his head, and the person completely lost his breath.
The two soldiers were also stunned for dozens of seconds when they saw this situation, and then the soldier driving the young woman put her next to a bed, stepped forward to probe the old man's pulse, shook his head at the woman, and helped the other soldier carry the two bodies out one after another.
"Is this the end?" Seeing this scene, Liu Chang somehow thought of his parents again, didn't dare to look at the young woman's expression anymore, and lay down on the bed, holding his father's finger bones in his hands, his thoughts flying in confusion.
He didn't dare to look at the woman's expression because he was afraid of seeing his future self - knowing the state of the world, Liu Chang knew that the probability of his parents surviving was actually very low. But he didn't want to believe this fact, so he definitely didn't want to look at the woman's expression.
But man is really a very imaginative animal, the more you don't want to think about something, the more easily it will appear in your mind, and it will appear in a variety of ways, in various ways and forms to disturb you. After closing his eyes, Liu Chang thought of the death of his own parents from the death of the other party's parents, then thought of the corpse from the word death, and finally thought of the zombie from the corpse.
He had read a lot of zombie novels before, and sometimes he wondered why people were afraid of zombies. Now at this moment, he finally understood the problem that he had been unable to understand before-people are more afraid of zombies than tigers, probably just because everyone is afraid of seeing what they will look like after death.
Carrying this chaotic thought, Liu Chang didn't know when he entered a state of sleep, and the chaotic, chaotic and dangerous day passed.
In the course of that day, he had starved, searched, nearly died, cried, laughed, fed, and suffered...... It seems that this last day can be worth the emotional experience of the past ten years, and he has never found that people burst out with so many strong emotions in the face of death.
And for the next few days, the intensity of the emotion continued......
Over the next few days, Liu Chang went out hunting during the day and returned at night to see corpses being thrown into the large makeshift crematorium in the barracks compound. In just a few days, more than half of the human population had died in the military area - and the human camp had finally begun to die in large numbers due to hunger and disease.
In the first two days, the elderly and children bore the brunt, the former because of the aging and weakness, the latter because the immune system was not as strong as that of adults, and within a few days, most of the old people and children in the barracks died one after another, and the corpses of old and young were thrown into the flames with the cries of their relatives and turned into ashes.
Over the next three or four days, the Hand of Death slaughtered young and old and then patronized adults and young people. A large part of the adults who were not very strong also died one after another, and those who survived after these three or four days gradually adapted to the environment and exercised different abilities - first of all, the digestive system was greatly improved, and the plants that could not be eaten before, those with slight toxins, too hard, and the nutrients that were not easily absorbed were already accepted by the strong stomachs of these people.
So, the rest of these people, although still hungry every day, have struggled a little from the line of death.
And along with the evolution of the digestive system is their immune system, those who survive rarely get sick again, the chance of wound infection is also reduced to a minimum, and on the last day of the military area, there are no more people who die on a large scale due to disease.
Under the powerful law of "natural selection", the dead are lost in the shortest time, and the surviving become extremely strong and become powerful creatures shaped by nature.
All people's bodies have evolved to varying degrees, bones have become tougher, muscles have become stronger, and a very small number of people have evolved abilities of one kind or another because of mutations.
In the past nearly a week of human "death mutation", Liu Chang's body has also evolved with everyone, becoming stronger, and the mutated sensory ability has also been slightly improved again. And for nearly a week he went out hunting every day, and he caught his prey twice, the first time a large water snake in the field, and the second, this time, a chicken—yes, a chicken, the kind of domestic chicken that used to be, but now it was half a man's size.
Carrying the chicken, Liu Chang came to the kitchen and found the little leader of the military in charge of food-Mao Yixuan.
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