7. Chapter 7: Virus Outbreak

Lu Ziming followed Li Qiujing into the villa, and when he raised his eyes, he saw a spacious living room, with a huge dining table in the center of the living room, and a middle-aged and melancholy man sat at the dining table, smoking a cigarette with his head down, as if he was thinking about something.

The middle-aged man's name is Li Zheng, Li Qiujing's father, who is in charge of the program editing work of Fangcheng TV Station, and Wei Ming is Li Zheng's subordinate, who is responsible for the interview of the program, which is the reporter who is usually called.

Li Qiujing said a lot of things in the car, such as when the virus broke out, the family was holding a 16th birthday party for Li Rumei (Li Qiujing's sister), and the dead Xiao Yong, Xiao Lei and Xiao Li were Li Rumei's classmates, who had been trapped in the villa for three days and were about to go out to look for food, and happened to meet Lu Ziming in the underground warehouse.

There are still many people in the villa, all of whom are Li Rumei's classmates, 3 of them have become zombies, and they were tied up in the room after the onset of the disease, and they were counting on someone to rescue and heal at first, but the survivors gradually found that no one responded at all, and the mobile phone signals were not in the service area.

So many things happened suddenly, many people were dumbfounded, some people left the villa and never came back, and some people left and ran back again, and they still stay in the villa and wait for the judgment of fate.

To be precise, most of the villas are alumni of Lu Ziming, Li Qiujing just graduated from high school this year and was admitted to Xi'an Jiaotong University, and will leave home to report to the university in a few days.

Li Rumei is one grade lower than Lu Ziming, and she is a sophomore in high school after the start of school, because Lu Ziming has a reputation as a top student in school, so Li Qiujing has heard of Lu Ziming. But Lu Ziming didn't know Li Qiujing, but knew Li Qiujing's sister Li Rumei, because Li Rumei was too beautiful and was the school flower of Starlight High School, so she couldn't know her if she wanted to.

In fact, Li Qiujing is also very beautiful, and she is already one of the best beauties in a million, just compared to her sister...... , I can only blame Li Rumei for being too beautiful, completely covering her sister's light.

Li Zheng did not approve of Li Qiujing's adventure, hoping that someone would come to the rescue, but after waiting for a few days, he also despaired.

There were many people standing in the living room of the villa, and after listening to Li Qiujing's account of what happened in the underground warehouse, they focused their eyes on Lu Ziming.

The villa has already begun to run out of food, otherwise Li Qiujing would not have chosen to venture out to find food, Lu Ziming threw the mountaineering bag on his body on the table: "There is still a little food here, you can take it and eat it first", since he has temporarily decided to live here, Lu Ziming obviously can't eat alone.

Perhaps it was because he was hungry, and the food in the hiking bag was quickly divided, leaving only a few of the most unpalatable compressed biscuits for Lu Ziming.

Lu Ziming was not angry, at least they knew that leaving some food for themselves had a lot of conscience than the robbers who robbed them of everything, and they had not completely lost the virtues of civilized society.

"Classmate Lu, sit!" Li Zheng pointed to the chair next to him and said, "It's not easy for a person to survive, tell me how you did it and what your plans are in the future."

Li Zheng gave Lu Ziming the feeling that he was a bit like the school's teaching director, cold, and rarely had a smiling face when he saw people, which may be the majesty that a leader should have.

Lu Ziming didn't like to communicate with people like this, the officials of the township government were like this in the past, and the school leaders later were like this, always acting like they were on top, as if they didn't do this, they would immediately lose their prestige and power. Lu Ziming dislikes two kinds of people, one is an official, the other is rich, the face of an official and the arrogance of the rich make Lu Ziming mature prematurely, and he will not be humble or arrogant when facing Li Zheng.

"I'm a kid in the mountains, I don't know any rules, but I know how to survive in a difficult situation, zombies have lost their humanity, but they retain their animal nature, they can recognize the surrounding qiē through sounds and smells, attacking their bodies and limbs is futile, and the brain and spine are the weaknesses of zombies. There is no hope here, and once I find the food and medicine I need, I will return to the mountain village, thank you for allowing me to stay overnight. ”

It may be the reason why Li Zheng works in the TV station, and he is not deeply contaminated with the atmosphere of some officialdom, and when he heard Lu Ziming emphasize that he was a child in the mountains and did not understand the rules, the corners of his eyes twitched a few times, and he understood that Lu Ziming had become disgusted with himself.

"It's safe here, you can stay here and wait for help?"

"Rescue!" Lu Ziming seemed to hear the most ridiculous joke in the world, what a warm word, that is the mutual assistance and friendship of civilized society, but now Lu Ziming can't see anything.

Lu Ziming ran out of the township government and waited on the fishing boat for a day and a half, during which Lu Ziming saw massacres, deception, fear, anger, despair, and mutual help and friendship between people in despair, but he did not see the so-called government help. From the outbreak of the virus to now, five days have passed, the police and the army have not appeared, communication and electricity have disappeared, the city without information communication is like a huge tomb, the zombies are the dead, and those survivors are not the living dead.

"Is there any hope for staying here without food, medicine, and weapons?"

"Uncle Li, you haven't been outside to see, the most important thing now is to hoard food and medicine, I don't know if there will be rescue, but from the current point of view, the hope is very slim, don't you often say that people in the disaster area must learn to save themselves?" Lu Ziming didn't want to overstimulate Li Zheng and the people in the restaurant, they had similar ideas to Li Zheng, thinking that the difficulties were temporary, and the rescue would definitely be there, and tomorrow would be better after the storm.

Faith can give survivors the courage to live, maybe Li Zheng himself does not believe that there will be rescue, there is no mobile phone signal, TV shows have been interrupted, and the villa has become an isolated island. Li Zheng was very distressed and couldn't think of a better way, otherwise he wouldn't let Li Qiujing take the risk.

"You have to believe that the government and the country, this is the most difficult time, you should support each other, help each other, you are the future of the country, and the country will not abandon your ....... ”

It's tiring to talk to bureaucrats, what you want to say is not necessarily what they want to hear, and what they say must have nothing to do with themselves, but you have to pretend to be listening to the sounds of nature, which is disgusting.

Lu Ziming decided to change the topic and understand what he cared about: "Uncle Li, you work in a TV station, you should know something about the virus, can you tell me about it?"

Li Zheng snuffed out the cigarette butt and said: "I know that the situation is similar, the outbreak of the virus this time was too sudden, it happened to be Sunday, and there was no latest news...... Now that the communication has been cut off, I also want to know what happened outside."

Li Zheng's eyes were a little dazed, he shouldn't have said what was in his heart, Lu Ziming looked up and saw many people standing around, and immediately understood why Li Zheng was lying.

"Uncle Li, do you have any recent newspapers? I want to read it. ”

"Come with me to the study!"

The villa has lost the external power supply, but fortunately, a solar power supply device has been installed on the roof of the villa, although it cannot meet the needs of normal life as before, but there is still a power to maintain a few LED lights.

Lu Ziming followed Li Zheng into the study, closed the door casually and said: "Uncle Li, before August 7th, there was only news in the newspaper that people were infected with the H13N19 avian influenza virus mutation, and after the 8th, the virus broke out, and zombies appeared within a day, can you tell me why?"

Li Zheng's eyes were not panicked, but there was some appreciation: "You are very right to observe, and your logical analysis ability is also very strong, but you have neglected one point: the relationship between time and place."

Lu Ziming's eyes suddenly widened and said, "Uncle Li, are you saying that the virus outbreak is global...... , how can this be", Lu Ziming's whole body seemed to be drained of strength all of a sudden, and he felt that the world was spinning, the worst result, Lu Ziming did not think about it, at most a few cities and provinces, but the meaning of the global virus outbreak is completely different.

"It's strange that you're smart, something that others haven't figured out for a few days, and you suddenly find the root of the problem. I don't know much about the situation, I've been thinking about this question for the past few days, why did the virus break out on the same day, I have a few online videos here, you can understand it by looking at it", Li Zheng opened the laptop and pushed it in front of Lu Ziming.

The first video, "Here is the British BBC radio and television station for you to report on the scene: a new virus has just hit the city of London, the government calls on citizens not to panic, wear masks, stay at home, close windows and doors, do not go to the streets, the government has sent troops to ......", the picture quickly switched, there was a frenzy of panic buying in supermarkets, there was a phenomenon of smashing and looting on the streets, angry citizens burned cars on the streets, mounted police with batons to maintain law and order on the streets, and teams of armored vehicles were driving into the city.

In the second video, "Here's the New York Times reporter reporting on it: There is chaos in New York City, traffic is paralyzed, shops are closed, factories are closed, violence is on the rise, panicked citizens are taking to the streets to confront the police, hoping that the government will come forward to explain ......the situation." Footage of people biting people on the street with their mobile phones was shown, police were shooting, panicked citizens were running around, and some people took the opportunity to pry open the doors of shops and move things out of .......

There is also a third video, a fourth video, each video is similar, there are chaotic scenes everywhere, and the government calls on the citizens to calm down and .......

Li Zheng pointed to the video and said: "These are all videos circulating on the Internet on the night of August 7, London, New York, Hamburg, San Francisco...... It's all like this, followed by China, Japan, and overnight, the whole world has an outbreak of the virus, are you still going to get out of here?"

"Impossible", Lu Ziming instinctively retorted: "The speed of the virus is not so fast, it will not break out at the same time, it must be a mistake, although the virus can spread through the air, but the speed and direction of air flow are affected by atmospheric circulation, even if there is a strong air flow blowing from west to east, it is impossible to affect the whole world in one day...... It must be a scam, yes, it must be a scam, this kind of thing will never happen."