The nearby fields were bulldozed, and in the next few weeks, Su Hao planned to plant wheat with his ties. He was unfamiliar with farming, and could only find books from libraries and bookstores as references.

No, you can learn.

What's more, it's about the team's future food supply.

With plenty of gasoline to ensure it, Cao Rui's search team began to go further. They drove their cars around the neighboring suburbs to search for supplies, bringing back more than a dozen pigs, cattle, sheep and other domestic animals, as well as a few plows that were essential for farming. Some tractors can't drive up the mountains and have to rely on this stuff to turn over the soil.

Liao Qiu had a lot of ideas———— he grabbed a few zombies and put iron clips on them. Then, one person holds the stick tightly and controls it, one person holds the plow behind the zombie, and the last person walks in front with the captured live mouse. The hungry zombies are attracted by the "squeaking" rats, howling and rushing forward, and the chains and belts tightly tied to the body pull the plow, and in this way, the three-person ploughing mode is a bit complicated, but it works.

After all, zombies have much greater strength and speed than ploughing oxen. No need to eat grass and no rest.

Han Jing brought back a truckload of ripe amaranth from the vegetable field outside the city. Under Li Xiaomei's direction, the women cut the tubers into shreds, dried them until they were semi-dry, and pickled them with salt and peppers. This winter, there should be no shortage of vegetables to eat.

To Tianhao has an unusual interest in the rushing river at the bottom of the mountain. He led people to "visit" the fishermen on the edge of Dianchi Lake from house to house, and collected many fishing nets from the deserted villages. It took two days for Du Tianhao to build a "dam" made of wood and fishing nets on the river. The gentle flow of water in this area, coupled with two small wooden boats found from the upstream village, managed to net nearly a ton of fresh river food. Among them, most of them are grass carp, but there are also burbot loaches and carp.

The dishes in the camp cafeteria began to become rich and varied. Dried vegetables such as vermicelli, fungus, mushrooms, and kelp are cooked with fish or cured meat. There are still many wild vegetables in the mountains and forests this season, and with the vitamin C that Su Hao got from the city's pharmacy, although people's labor is large, they are very healthy.

Zhou Chen is still obsessed with the study of Su Hao's blood. He was fascinated by the mysterious black particles. The team needs to be managed, there are many things to deal with, Su Hao really has no time to separate, and the camp laboratory has almost become Zhou Chen's ** space. He took blood samples from all team members and compared them with every outsider he encountered and refused to join the team. This boring data collection has been going on for almost a month, and Zhou Chen finally feels that he has made an extremely significant breakthrough in the study of black particles.

The doors and windows of the laboratory were closed, and Su Hao and Zhou Chen sat next to the microscope.

"It's a creature that has never been discovered. It is not a cell, but a virus that originates from the outside world and lives in your body. Sorry, the word "virus" is not a pejorative word, they are actually living things too. Black particles should get their energy through mitochondria, there is no one controlling who between you and them, and the relationship between the two should coexist. Now I know for sure: they transformed you into the "queen bee". Well, I forgot your gender, or the word "queen bee" is more appropriate. These particles are largely capable of influencing infected people, i.e. other people who have achieved immunity through blood-to-blood contact. Black particles cannot control the mind, they only use biological attraction to make the infected feel close to you, and then willing to obey your commands. ”

Su Hao believes that Zhou Chen's research has some truth.

Otherwise, even he himself couldn't explain why hundreds of team members were willing to obey his instructions?

You must know that these people are civilians, not the military. Each of them has a unique idea, and even if they are forced to worship themselves as their leader because of the threat of food and the environment, there will always be various complaints, however, the whole team has been working well since the construction of the field camp. Members who have taken immunization drugs, that is, their own blood, cooperate with each other quite tacitly.

Su Hao was surprised by this phenomenon more than once, even the hunters of the future world realm could not achieve such efficient cooperation.

The only explanation is probably as Zhou Chen said, that he is a huge humanoid "queen bee".

There is a second half of Zhou's research results.

"Your blood doesn't work for everyone. Of the total study data, 281 blood samples expressed rejection of black particles. These are all outsiders who refuse to join the team. They are reluctant to go to camp and do not want to stay in a place that looks like there is little future. You know that I won't lie about this kind of thing, but it is———— yes, you are very handsome, but not everyone who walks on the road outside will like you as much as Li Xinyan (Xinyan's surname is Li). The way these people think may affect how well their cells accept black particles. They refuse to fuse with your blood, or even reject. Well! To explain, "they" here refers to cells. ”

Su Hao looked at the extremely sincere expression on Zhou Chen's face, and narrowed his eyes slightly: "How do you know Lu Dao?" I've never given those outsiders an immunity potion. Only those who decide to join the team are eligible to inject my blood. ”

"That's right! You didn't give it to them, but you gave it to me! ”

Zhou Chen stood up with a smile, walked to the medical freezer in the corner, reached out and knocked on the hard cabinet door, and said proudly: "You gave me 400 milliliters of blood as research materials." I've always been very economical. In the name of "quarantine virus", when taking blood samples from outsiders who refused to join, I lied that your blood was antibiotics, and the effect of injecting them was very obvious, and those guys who subjectively refused to admit you, and the black particles could not be integrated into their cells. I don't know what brains can do to cells, but they do have immunity in their bodies. Just like us, they can become Fortified by taking Silver Bone. ”

Su Hao suddenly stood up from his chair and looked at him with a shocked face.

"Nope! This disorderly proliferation is too dangerous. Do you know the way?"

"Don't worry! Let me finish my sentence————"

Zhou Chen put his hands into the outer pockets of his white coat and pulled a chair to sit down. He looked at Su Hao and laughed softly: "I am a very cautious person, it is impossible to let outsiders with immunity run around. They are just the vehicle I use for my arguments. Rest assured! Those people don't pose any threat to you, and the secrets of the team won't be known to outsiders. for I have slew them all. ”

The voice of the last sentence was very soft, and Su Hao only felt that there was thunder in his head. He felt a little distracted, and asked in a strange emphasis, "What did you say?" ”

"I killed those who refused to join the team, but were injected with your blood."

Zhou Chen's white face showed a very sunny smile, full of sincerity and earnestness, without the slightest apology and coldness: "All the outsiders who have been injected with the immunization agent but have not joined the team are dead. Everything was handled cleanly and nothing was missed. I'm a stage 2 reinforcement and have guns. ”

Su Hao stood quietly.

He felt that his brain was very messy, and his eyes were staring directly at Zhou Chen, who was sitting opposite.

Reason told him it was horrible, it was bloody. He never imagined that the people around him would do such a thing.

"They're people, not zombies."

Su Hao's eyes released a cold light.

This is beyond the bottom line of his tolerance.

However, deep down there is still a very slim expectation.

He was waiting for Zhou Chen to say that all this had never happened, telling himself that it was just a joke to adjust the atmosphere.

"I killed them."

Zhou Chen's extremely serious words shattered the most reluctant illusion in Su Hao's heart: "I need experimental data, and I want to prove something that is useful to you from the opposite direction." Besides, they couldn't go far on that road. There are zombies everywhere and there is no rescue. Even if they don't get bitten to death by zombies, they will starve to death. ”

"That's different."

Su Hao's voice became hoarse: "I said———— they are people, not zombies." ”

Zhou Chen stopped talking.

The atmosphere in the room froze.

After being silent for a few minutes, Zhou Chen got up from his chair and walked towards Su Hao. He stood next to the microscope, took out the dispensed pistol from his coat pocket, held the barrel of the gun, and handed the handle of the gun to Su Hao.

"You can kill me."

There was no resentment on his face, only confession and calmness: "I don't know why this is happening. When I killed the first person, I couldn't put into words the fear and shock I felt in my heart. I thought about stopping it, about stopping this sin and making amends for the living in other ways. But I still continued to do the same thing, one after another, taking blood samples, comparing them, injecting them, and then tracking them into the distance, aiming them and shooting."

Su Hao stared at Zhou Chen's pupils, wanting to see through all the hidden ingredients: "You should have told me about this earlier." I can help you, and there won't be those things that follow, and more people will die. ”

"Nope! You can't help me. ”

Zhou Chen's answer was very sudden. He smiled bitterly and shook his head: "I know it's wrong to do this, but I can't stop it." If time could go against the clock, I'm sure I'd still do it, and I'm still hiding it from you. ”

Su Hao's face showed anger, gritted his teeth and asked, "What are you doing?" ”

Zhou Chen looked straight ahead, thought for a while, raised his right hand, pointed at his heart, and then pointed at Su Hao.

"Don't you understand? I identify with you and have injected your blood. You're the queen bee, and I'm the worker bee. ”

Bee colonies are very special creatures.

Queen bees are unique and irreplaceable. Every worker bee exists for the queen bee. They extract nectar, refine royal jelly, and all work for the queen bee. They will never defect and will be as united as ironclad. When encountering a foreign enemy, any worker bee will stand up and swarm forward without hesitation, defending its king with its body and life.

They are willing to do anything for the sake of the king.

Even if you are burdened with sin

There was no weather forecast, and the survivors had to rely on experience to make observations about celestial phenomena. The heat in the air is getting weaker day by day, the sun is no longer so harsh, and even on a sunny day, I still feel a slight chill on my body.

The team members were all given winter coats. That was actually a stockpile collected from the shops in the city a few months ago. Since most of the warehouse space is used to store food and medicine, the number of quilts stored is not too large. According to statistics, it can only meet the needs of about 600 people at most.

Su Hao held the steering wheel and walked west along the road in the city. Thirty kilometers per hour is not a fast speed, and occasionally a zombie with nimble legs will pounce on the steel mesh on the surface of the body. They are very persistent, and they refuse to let go even if they die, so they drag on like this, bringing up a wet blood trail on the asphalt road.

Shinyan wore a set of model tights and sat in the passenger seat. She leaned half sideways and looked at Su Hao with a blank face with some concern.

Su Hao did not do anything to Zhou Chen. It was as if it had never happened, and he had never heard of anything.

That's not Zhou Chen's fault.

Su Hao didn't know what to do.

The only thing he can do is to encounter any similar incident in the future, no matter who he is, he must tell himself as soon as possible, instead of making claims like Zhou Chen.

"I don't like the way you look now."

Xinyan whispered, "You should smile, just like when I first met you." ”

Su Hao's tense face slowly became relaxed, he grasped the direction with his left hand, held Xinyan's wrist with his right hand, and his fingers drilled into the girl's palm, scratching back and forth. The itchy sensation spread along his arm to his whole body, and Xinyan finally couldn't help but laugh with a "poof".

Su Hao turned his head, looked at her, and smiled with satisfaction: "You are the same." ”

There was no third person who knew about the conversation between him and Zhou Chen. Su Hao did not intend to continue to pursue it.

Everything has been done, people are dead, and there is no point in any remedy.

He was confident that the other team members, including Zhou Chen, would not disobey orders.

After all, she is the queen bee.

However, this term is really hard to hear.

The off-road vehicle was driving on the empty and unmanned road, and Su Hao's thinking, which had been entangled by various negative emotions for a long time, gradually became soothing.

Driving out is certainly not for relaxation. To the west of the city, near the Second Ring Road, there is a large machinery trading market. There's a lot of useful stuff to get there. Among them, there are different types of solar power generation equipment.

The city is close to the forefront of the country in terms of solar engineering and building integration. The average annual sunshine rate is more than 56%, and the average annual sunshine hours are more than 2,250 hours.

(Friends who come to Kunming for tourism, you can stand on a high place and overlook, there are dense solar water heaters everywhere.) Old black doesn't lie! ）

The reason why Su Hao chose Kunming as the landing point of time and space is also to consider the use of electric and thermal energy. Compared to other cities, there are more solar heat generators here, and the equipment is easy to use and install. In particular, the petrol stations that are being renovated near the camp need to install small generators.

Driving through an intersection with traffic poles and bypassing a few abandoned vehicles that were cowering and colliding with each other, the off-road vehicle slowly drove towards the service road under the viaduct.

Suddenly, Xinyan frowned and looked out the window.

"Drive slower!"

She raised her left hand to signal a stop, and her right hand quickly clenched the automatic rifle leaning against her leg, and said uncertainly, "Did you hear anything?" ”

Su Hao's eyes narrowed solemnly, and then he stepped on the brakes hard, and turned the key to shut down the engine.

The Silver Bone that Xinyan had taken was enough to reach the fourth strengthening stage. Her ability to hear and perceive is at least twice that of the average person. What's more, Su Hao himself also heard some movements that were not mechanical noises. This sound is also particularly clear when the engine is turned off.

"Get out of here, you guys (some) damn thickened (guys) get out of the way, who's going to help me?"

The cry for help was weak, with intermittent gasps. It sounds like a drowning dying person struggling desperately in the last few seconds of his life.

Without waiting for Xinyan to open his mouth, Su Hao, who had identified the direction, had already restarted the engine, stepped on the clutch as fast as he could, put on gear, refueled, and drove the off-road vehicle towards the side street and alley where the sound was made.

It is a residential area adjacent to the street.

As soon as he rushed into the alley more than 100 meters away, several zombies immediately rushed over in the corners on both sides. They clung to the car body, staring at Su Hao and Xinyan sitting in the car with red eyes through the window glass. They were obviously hungry, and they opened their mouths to gnaw at the steel wire welded outside the car window, and stretched out their tongues to lick the car window desperately, leaving disgusting marks of brown pus on the transparent glass surface.

Su Hao didn't slow down.

He had already seen that dozens of meters in front of him, an old man in his fifties was standing on the top of the power distribution room, waving a thin steel pipe removed from the length of the folding chair, desperately driving away the zombies gathered at his feet. The man-eating monsters surrounded him closely, with no escape and nothing like poles to climb.

The old man was terrified. He kept cursing, picking up the steel pipe and slamming it on the head of the zombie at his feet. There are constantly zombies who are hit in the head and retreat, staggering, but this kind of action is obviously not strong enough, not too lethal, and it will not take long for the repulsed zombies to join the encirclement again. This terrible situation devoured the old man's confidence and physical strength like a devil. He howled loudly, his thick, pale beard covered with tears and snot, and he wielded the steel pole more slowly and with more difficulty.

(Thank you to everyone who wishes Lao Hei a happy birthday.) Hehe! My eyes are moist)