Volume I, Section 9 History

Everyone, including Xinyan, didn't understand, why did you want to hunt zombies? And get hormones and silver bones from them?

Su Hao often took Silver Bone in front of other people. He also said frankly: this kind of thing can strengthen bones and transform the body. At the same time, he also repeatedly warned that he was not afraid of the virus in the corpse, which was the premise of taking Silver Bone.

He even took the initiative to reach out and let the zombie bite in front of others, showing that what he said was true.

He didn't want to hide secrets.

Because, over time, others will also discover the presence of the silver bone.

For example, the name of the silver bone is far away in Luther, England. Kavez.

Gradually, people began to get used to all this. When Xinyan and Tao Yuan went out to collect supplies, they would often help him bring back some silver bone particles.

Looking at Su Hao, who was slightly distracted, Tao Yuan grinned. He stepped over the corpse lying on the ground, patted Su Hao's shoulder, and handed over a hose filled with rotten hormones.

"Hey! What happened to you? ”

β€œβ€¦β€¦ It's nothing. ”

Su Hao retracted his wandering thinking, carefully put the hose into his underwear pocket, and put it away. He glanced at Tao Yuan, who was standing in front of him, and said, "Tomorrow, I will go out of Lu." ”

Tao Yuan nodded.

Just last week, Su Hao took him to find a heavy wooden box from a garbage room at the other end of the city. It contained hundreds of kilograms of white powder, two pistols, and more than a thousand rounds of ammunition.

Su Hao has always given him the feeling of being very mysterious. Tao Yuan never asked about the specific origin of the box. He is not good at words, and he knows that everyone has their own secrets.

The old man Song Zhizhong and his wife both saidβ€”β€”β€”β€” Su Hao is not a bad person.

Otherwise, he would not have been able to make a move at that time, and he would not have let them live in a small and well-guarded building.

Tao Yuan subconsciously thought that Su Hao's "go out of the road" was just a private matter to do.

It's not strange, it's normal......

The map of the city has been firmly engraved in the depths of Su Hao's mind and has become an indelible part of his memory.

He left the building in the early hours of the morning with an SA80 assault rifle on his back as usual and a backpack with magazines, food and water. I chose a "Xiali" sedan parked on the side of the road, smashed the windows, activated the engine with wires, and drove towards the west of the city.

There was a deathly silence, silent concrete buildings everywhere, cars scattered across the streets, and a faint stench of the cold morning breeze. The bodies of the deceased are decomposing, and the gnawed remains are gradually drying. Flies and mosquitoes hovered over the dead bodies, and rats and cockroaches gathered next to the putrid skeletons. They may have sensed that the world was changing, but they had not changed their habit of liking flesh and blood. It doesn't really make a difference between the living and the dead.

Su Hao drove the car, going back and forth in the city. He doesn't seem to have a fixed goal, just walks back and forth through the streets. The gauge pointer shifted to the left showed that only a third of the fuel in the tank remained, but he didn't care, still maintaining a fixed speed.

There are no traffic lights, and no one reprimands for going in the wrong direction. He was like a visitor from an alien planet, staring at the city with an indifferent gaze, strolling aimlessly.

He avoided the corpse-packed neighborhoods, the roar of the engines having a noticeable attraction to the predators. Many zombies wandering in dark corners slowly walked out, howling and chasing the cars that passed by. There were also a few very unlucky guys who were knocked off the spot, rolled on the ground a few times, and got up again like an immortal superman.

In front of an old torii that is quite famous and is regarded as the symbol of the city, the car slowly stops. Su Hao walked down with his backpack and weapon, looked around alertly to make sure that there were no snoopers, and then took a step forward and walked to the building on the other side of the street that was dozens of meters high.

He used his hunting knife to kill several zombies entrenched in front of the entrance of the building, and without making a sound, he jumped up the stairs like a ghost, and with the tools he had prepared in advance, he pried open the door of a room on the second floor, and dodged in.

It's an office with a small size. Through the window, you can see the wide road and the square with the torii arch on the opposite side.

After blocking the door with the broken lock cylinder with furniture and confirming that the escape route that could leave the room through the window along the drain pipe, Su Hao put down his backpack and gun, took out a rice ball that was still warm, and ate it slowly.

The time teleporter may be the greatest invention in the history of human civilization, and it is also Su Hao's originality. He knew very well that once β€”β€”β€”β€” such thing was successfully developed, it would only bring him endless troubles and even death. At that time, Su Hao very smartly chose to cooperate with the military. However, the wealthy families who covet the results are not willing to cheapen the military for nothing. They bribed the military top brass to force them to hand over all the research materials. Su Hao had no choice, so he could only destroy all the technical parameters, and set the machine to complete the automatic transmission, and the detonating bomb would self-destruct.

The most successful escape is to go to a strange world where no one knows him. Perhaps future generations will develop machines with the same function, but they will never find their own spatial dimension.

At the end of the road in the distance, a zombie with a dazed expression slowly walked over. It walked slowly, looking around for edible creatures. It was not aloneβ€”β€”β€”β€” more than ten meters behind it, followed by five or six companions in ragged clothes and ugly faces. Viewed from the air, they resemble an irregular arrowhead, guiding a dense crowd of corpses that staggered dozens of meters away.

It's a huge horde of thousands of zombies. They move aimlessly, and no one knows why they are here. Can't tell what exactly they're attracted to? Various styles of shoes trampled on the green belt, and abandoned vehicles scattered on the road were flooded with corpses. Mosquitoes that like pus and rotten flesh also gather and fly over the corpses. Many zombies raised their heads and kept reaching out to grasp these tiny lifeforms. Occasionally, a few quick or very lucky guys are able to catch flies and mosquitoes. They immediately stuff their prey into their mouths, chewing very hard and with great loudness, attracting the hate, irritation, envy, and longing glances of their companions around them.

The visual power modified by the silver bone allowed Su Hao to observe the movement of ordinary people at three times the visual distance without the help of auxiliary equipment such as telescopes. He sat by the window, indifferent to the crowd of corpses marching down the street below. There was no aim, no murderous intent, and no intention to take any action, just simple observation.

The biggest advantage of traveling through time and space is that you know the future in advance.

Of course, some small accidents may also affect the course of events that have not yet happened. For example, Xin Yan and Tao Yuan, who he saved from the mouth of the zombies, may have already turned into Sensen white bones in another time and space.

Thanks to his identity as a senior scientific and technological researcher in the future world, Su Hao once consulted many secrets in the computer archives that outsiders could not know.

There are signs that the government and military may have anticipated this world-wide outbreak. There was no rescue, and there was no broadcast to the population. People fled the cities to establish new settlements in the wilderness. Since then, Su Hao has been very familiar with the changes and development of human society. Still, he found something quite special from the archives.

It was a record of the military's research into genetic agents. In the "Notes" column of the document, the words "Prototype Elixir Missing" are written.

Su Hao was shocked at the timeβ€”β€”β€”β€” according to different effects, genetic drugs were divided into immunization, strengthening, and increasing cell activity. The military's archives are entered very carefully, and there is no way to mix them with irrelevant information. In particular, for columns such as "Remarks", which must be specifically explained, the text of the record must be reliable and detailed.

Hidden in this simple message are two kinds of interrelated content.

1. The detailed classification of genetic drugs should be the military's research results on prototype drugs. The documentation does not mention the specific efficacy of the prototype elixir. Su Hao guessed that the use effect of the prototype drug should be far greater than that of the gene drug. Even, it is a synthesis of different kinds of genetic drugs.

Second, long before the outbreak of the virus, the military had obtained a prototype drug, but it suddenly encountered an accident and did not conduct systematic research on the drug. It is likely that they have only obtained a partial range of relevant data, and the information and recipes are not comprehensive. Because, at the bottom of the "Remarks" column, there is also a date attached to itβ€”β€”β€”β€” "May 29, 2020".

That is, today.

In order to seek the truth, Su Hao searched all the information he could access at that time. Finally, in a highly classified document, the relevant records of the loss of the prototype potion were found.

During the 2013 South China Expo, the Kingdom of Cambodia signed a series of cooperation projects with the government. This includes the mutual assignment of experts to conduct academic exchanges on ancient cultures. At that time, King Sihamoni took the initiative to invite domestic archaeological authorities to participate in the excavation plan of the Angkor Wat underground palace.

Half a year later, a wealthy businessman who likes to collect antiques in China began to participate in the excavation and injected a large amount of money into the archaeological research project. Records show that the real source of the money came from the military.

In the Angkor Wat underground palace, a total of about $20 billion worth of artifacts have been found. One of them has been carbon-14 tested and shows that it was made in the Old Kingdom. It was sent back to the country through extremely covert channels. Six years later, the Kunming Base Research Institute obtained a prototype potion from an ancient ruin in Southeast Asia.

Due to the fact that there are so many confidential elements involved, there is a lot of ambiguity in this information. Su Hao's identity at that time could not continue to find more. However, the process of the loss of the prototype potion is well documentedβ€”β€”β€”β€” after obtaining the potion, the Kunming base has been working hard to crack the specific formula and ingredients. Before the large-scale outbreak of the virus, researchers had already made some progress and transmitted relevant information to headquarters through satellite networking. On May 29, today, the military decided to transfer the prototype to the central base. In the process, the escort force unexpectedly encountered a large number of corpses, and the entire army was wiped out.

The data shows that the position where the prototype elixir appeared at the end was the square in front of Su Hao. The transport convoy carries the "Beidou" satellite positioning system, and there is absolutely no problem with this coordinate.

As for the time...... Su Hao raised his right hand and glanced at the watch on his wrist, the hands had just passed the 8:27 scale.

"Six minutes to go."

He silently counted down the numbers that had been counted into seconds, and kept replaying in his mind the content of the materials he had read. Holding the assault rifle tightly with both hands, his fingers rubbing back and forth between the trigger and the magazine, all the while shaking, the amplitude getting louder and louder.

The central nervous system, which has been modified by silver bone, has been strengthened at least three times more. Su Hao could feel a slight tremor coming from the ground, and at the end of the street connected to the square, the roar of the engine could be heard in the distance, tearing apart the silence of the early morning, and also disturbing the restlessness that was forcibly suppressed in the depths of his heart.

It was a military "warrior" off-road jeep painted in dark green. It sped from afar at incredible speed. The furious speed, roaring engine, like a magnet, firmly attracted the zombies gathered in the squares and streets. Their eyes glowed red, and they gathered from all directions with a sudden frenzy to find food. From where Su Hao was, the jeep was like a magnet jumping straight into the pile of mineral sand, completely surrounded by the zombies that had been absorbed. The wide rubber tires ran through the crowd of corpses that were not afraid of death, wading out of a road stained with minced flesh and blood, and constantly crashing into the ** obstacles that wanted to block the road. However, the zombies had no idea of pain or fear, and they opened their mouths wide and howled, slamming into the body like a tidal wave.

"Dadaβ€”β€”β€”β€”"

Heavy machine guns mounted on the roof of the car began to shoot bullets.

Rushing to the front of the zombie, fist-sized holes immediately appeared, and dark red liquid with minced bones and flesh gushed out, and the clammy and cold air immediately became bloody. There are constantly zombies being beaten alive in two, and they can only rely on their hands to crawl on the ground. Many of the zombies who were shot had their chests and abdomen completely pierced, and yellow-green pus and internal organs flowed out. Because they didn't hit the vital point, they fell in rows and got up from the ground one after another, spreading their arms in a frenzied way to cling to the tires of the car, but they were crushed on the spot by the powerful impact and weight.

There were only three people in the car.

From a distance of hundreds of meters, Su Hao could still see their iron-blue faces, as well as eyes that released fear and despair. They were all officers, and there was even a lieutenant colonel of a high rank. He held a briefcase in his left hand and a gun in his right hand, and kept pulling the trigger at the zombies pouring out of the window. The bumps in the body seemed to have no effect on him, and the bullets that came out of the disembowelment hit the zombie's head accurately, laying a thick pile of corpses on both sides of the blood-stained road.

Su Hao half-squatted in front of the window, staring at the off-road jeep that rushed to the square and was surrounded by a dense crowd of corpses. In the depths of his dark eyes, there was an increasingly uncontrollable excitement and impulsiveness.

"The escort troops encountered a large group of corpses, and Lieutenant Colonel Liu Jianguo was surrounded and killed by zombies."

"The reinforcement of the base garrison was blocked, and there were heavy casualties."

"Lost ...... Prototype Elixir"

The words he had memorized countless times kept coming back to his head. Name, place, time, license plate of the wrecked vehicle...... All sorts of information from decades in the future, in the depths of the brain, are woven into simulated scenarios that overlap exactly with the scene that is happening in front of you, without missing a single bit.

The heavy machine gun was still spewing flames, and the zombies surrounding it immediately froze halfway, spewing several blood fountains from their chests and backs. More zombies formed a human wall, firmly blocking the jeep's path, and the rapidly spinning tires were covered in a layer of slimy flesh and skidding in the pus-rotting fluid. Soon, two zombies climbed up from the back of the car, hugged the shoulders of the machine gun shooter standing on the roof of the car, and gnawed his neck from the left and right, and the soldier screamed and fell out of the car, engulfed by the frenzied corpses.

The driver tried his best to press the accelerator, but the force released by the engine could not compete with the corpses. These death-defying creatures shoved the car, reached into the car window, grabbed the driver's arm, and nibbled and tore at all odds. Under the drag of this irresistible terrible force, the driver could only howl with all his might, watching his left arm detach from his shoulder and quickly disappear into the sharp and hideous hungry mouth outside the car.

The lieutenant colonel's right shoulder had been bitten by a zombie, and the expression on his face was more tyrannical than ever, and the depths of his pupils even began to ripple with blood, and then changed into despair as hard as a rock. He raised his right hand holding the gun, aimed at the dying driver next to him, shot through the side of the opponent's skull, turned the muzzle of the gun, aimed it at his temple, and pulled the trigger heavily.

Man, already dead.

The corpses became more agitated. They gathered around the jeep and crowded from all directions, eating the flesh and skin of the dead. The bodies of the driver and lieutenant colonel were dragged out of the window and quickly torn to shreds. The food was clearly not large enough to divide the hordes evenly, and they began to scramble for each other, howling for a finger or a small piece of hairy minced meat. The stalled jeep is like a lonely reef in the sea, washed over and over again by the crazy dense tide of corpses, and drowned again and again.

Su Hao leaned against the wall and breathed slowly.

He couldn't do anything, and he didn't dare to make the slightest noise.

Even the second- and third-tier fortified people could not cope with the huge crowd of corpses in the thousands. Although they are weak, they are only low-level creatures at the bottom of the evaluation table. But no one can deny that when the number accumulates to a certain level, it will burst out with unimaginably powerful force. They are enough to engulf everything, to cover everything.

Su Hao kept staring at the briefcase in the lieutenant colonel's handβ€”β€”β€”β€” which was handcuffed to the deceased's wrist and dragged back and forth with the corpse. The zombies had no interest in it, and the arm torn from the colonel's body was fought back and forth by a dozen zombies. The surface of the bag was stained with dirty flesh and blood, passing back and forth among the corpses along with the severed limbs that had been gnawed into white bones.