Chapter 8: Darkness

"Factories are closed, schools are closed, traffic is slow, prices of seasonal fruits and vegetables are tenfold, and supermarkets are snapped up......"

Corone pulled half a cigarette out of his jacket pocket, lit it with a plastic lighter, took two deep puffs, and exhaled.

"The government released information, saying that it had encountered some rare astronomical phenomena, and I didn't know much, in short, two days before darkness fell, it was quite stable, except for the daytime, some industries had holidays, some industries worked overtime, and there was no big problem, everyone was looking forward to the night passing quickly......"

"On the third day, everything was different, the earthquake, the continuous earthquake, although the intensity was very low, but everyone was full of fear, some people began to leave the city and take refuge in the countryside, but the transportation network was almost paralyzed, the planes and railways, all the services were suspended, and only a few people had time to escape. ”

"The earthquake is wave after wave, shaking the water cup, shaking off the wall, a few tens of seconds, more than ten minutes on the earthquake, gradually adapted, the news, the radio is full of earthquake information, the whole world is earthquakes, experts explain that it is the planetary resonance caused by celestial phenomena, but also remind coastal residents to evacuate, be careful of tsunamis. ”

"At this time, all the police were on duty day and night, the army was stationed outside the city, ready to deal with unexpected situations, and they also distributed food in large quantities, although the fear was everywhere, and the rumors of the end of the world were everywhere, but the whole was very stable. ”

"On the fifth day, everything changed, all the electrical appliances were damaged, the television, the radio, the telephones were destroyed, only the lights were still on, and ten minutes later, the power went out, the whole city was plunged into darkness, and after another half an hour, the water stopped, and the end of the world really came, rape, robbery, arson...... The police and soldiers were powerless, they could not contact the government, and all the instruments that used chips could not be used, so they had to use primitive gunpowder weapons to suppress the unrest, but the city's population of more than one million, thousands of soldiers was just a drop in the bucket. ”

The cigarette butt burned his fingers, and Corleone pressed it out on the table, leaving a black stain.

"I hid in my house, panicking, the sewers were clogged, the house was full of stench, feces and garbage were thrown downstairs, and the doors were locked...... Fortunately, there was enough food and water at home, and my wife and daughter and I ate only a little every day, praying sincerely and hoping that the darkness would pass. ”

"We almost lost the concept of time, we didn't know the day and night, we didn't know how long we slept at a time, and then, I suddenly found that my wife, who was lying with me, was as cold as a dead body, but she didn't die, and my daughters also became like this, they had hypothermia......"

"What is hypothermia?" Ke Mingde suddenly asked.

"The catastrophe of mankind, the catastrophe of all living things, the source of zombies! There is no cause, there is no cause, a person suddenly loses his body temperature, his heart beats very slowly, and his blood barely flows, and in addition, they have the same emotions and behaviors as normal people! But after an incubation period of more than half a month, people infected with hypothermia will die, no one can make exceptions, and then, their corpses will become zombies!"

Hypothermia is already known to everyone in this world, and Corion is not surprised by Ke Mingde's question.

"At that time, human beings knew nothing about hypothermia, and my wife and I were scared and didn't dare to go out to seek medical treatment, so we used my body temperature to warm them, all in vain!"

"The darkness was long and terrible, and it seemed like a whole year had passed before we received the first rays of sunshine in the dark days, and everyone opened their doors and windows, and ran outside, singing desperately, and sharing the rest of the food, whether it was strangers or villains!"

"After the joy, we found out that in these ten days of darkness, half of the people were infected with hypothermia, I don't know what the psychology is, seeing so many people infected, I thought it was just a small problem, maybe it was just too long to be in the sun, but when I got home, my wife told me that she had stopped breathing and was getting more and more tired, and it didn't take long for her to be able to open her eyes again, her body was cold and hard, like a stone, oh my God, she was dead! My poor daughter, she died earlier, after ten days of darkness, they didn't even get a full day of sun, and they died!"

“...... I put their bodies in boxes...... There were cries all over the city...... By the afternoon, so the people who had hypothermia were already dead......"

Corleone smacked intermittently, his voice sobbing, as if he couldn't let go.

Ke Mingde used a spell to comfort his emotions: "Didn't you say that hypothermia patients still have half a month? The darkness only lasted for ten days, and they were infected for five days at most. ”

"No one knows what is going on, maybe it's darkness, or maybe it's hunger, or panic, in short, the first group of hypothermia, on the first day of the sun, all died, the number of humans plummeted by half, and, that night, all turned into zombies, they have no weakness, greedy for the flesh and blood of living creatures, we desperately escaped, and finally left a life, I don't even know, a metropolis of one million people, in the end, did ten thousand people survive......"

Corion was reluctant to recall the original scene, but Cormend had already taken the horrors of the day of the disaster in his mind.

"Later we found out that these zombies hate the sun, and as soon as the sun comes out, they stop moving, hide in dark places, and fall into hibernation, and of course, if a living creature wakes them up, they will also brave the sun......"

"And then? How did you survive until now? ”

Ke Mingde asked.

"I was a driver, driving for Mr. Wessen, the City Councillor of Lane, and I had the keys to his villa in the suburbs, which was usually uninhabited, and I fled here, and then I gathered the survivors, eighty or ninety of them, some of whom died of illness, some of whom committed suicide because of the catastrophe, some of whom were killed by the zombies who roamed by the night, and some of whom suffered from hypothermia...... Now there are forty-seven left. ”

"I don't even know if human beings can continue any longer, this is not the end of the planet, it's just the end of civilization!"

He said in a pessimistic tone.

"Haven't you thought about rebuilding civilization in the past year of the disaster?"

"Rebuilding civilization, it's good to say, we can't even eat now, it's ridiculous, I haven't eaten meat for a whole year, and I used to taste eggs sporadically, just last month, some zombie cats and dogs sneaked in at night, and all the chickens were bitten to death. ”

"Besides, the crystallization of human civilization is no longer usable, even a good machine tool cannot be found, transportation is cut off, all resources are occupied by zombies, even if you try your best to repair some equipment, you can't escape the storm every other ......"

"Storm?"

"Ding, ding, ding!"

Corleone was about to explain when the alarm suddenly sounded.

"Downton, they're back!"

The old woman who acted as a guard shouted.

"Our hero is back!" Corleone perked up and went out to greet him.

"Heroes?"

"Hypothermia, the heroes who sustain our lives. Corleone said.