020 What are they?
“…… It's all stupid! After tossing all afternoon, I was already very tired, but when I mentioned fighting monsters, Zhang Ke immediately came to my senses. This is a boy whose nature is full of killing genes.
"I've counted, 16 of these 29 zombies have teeth bites and nail scratches, very deep wounds, and obvious signs of struggle, so the question is, who will bite them?"
"Dogs and cats?" Zhang Ke immediately gave the answer, and when cleaning the yard, he found a total of two dogs and cats. The cat was not found, but the dog was in the house. It's a pity that Hong Tao didn't let any of them come back, and killed them, which made Zhang Ke very dissatisfied, he likes small animals.
"It's just not, in a home with cats and dogs, zombies don't have wounds on their bodies!"
“…… It can't be a more advanced zombie! As I said in the morning, zombies can evolve, and they must have a core in their bodies...... ......"No matter how precocious Zhang Ke is, after all, he is a child, his thinking is easy to be deviated, and he likes to associate blindly, but he was slapped on the head as soon as he mentioned the word core."
"It is very likely that these 16 people did not mutate at first, but were bitten by their mutated relatives while they were asleep, and they could not break free until they mutated. If this assumption is true, guess what? The mutation speed after being bitten is very fast, so I didn't hear someone shouting for help in the middle of the night, and I couldn't run away and shouted that it would always be good! ”
In fact, no matter how Zhang Ke answered, Hong Tao was talking to himself, taking the opportunity of chatting and asking questions to take a look at the ideas in his mind and see if he could deduce what the results were.
"See blood seal your throat!" Zhang Ke agreed with this inference and added a word.
"So the question is, how do these zombies get their energy? That is, what to eat. Have you ever found a body that has been eaten? Not really. That is, they did not eat a corpse for more than a day. "Why bother trying to prove that zombie bites are contagious? Hong Tao's purpose is not here, but to argue another issue.
In his opinion, people becoming zombies must be a disease, and if it is a disease, there should be a cause. But whether you are infected by a virus or a bacteria, you need energy to move. People, animals, and insects all rely on eating to get energy, so what kind of way do zombies rely on to ingest energy?
By understanding this problem, you can basically determine the nature of the virus, and then you can find the most effective way to eliminate zombies. If you talk about it even further, you may be able to find ways to treat and prevent it.
"......" Zhang Ke stopped squeaking now, no matter how smart his little head was, he couldn't catch up with the cunning Hong Tao's calculations, and he was asked.
"Silly, have you ever seen movies and novels that mention that zombies have other ways to survive besides eating people?"
It's right if you can't answer, but Hong Tao still hopes that Zhang Ke can give himself a wake-up call whimsically. Sometimes, scientific research is just an accidental sentence or an idea, and adults may not be able to completely crush children in this regard.
"Maybe they're not hungry...... It's a pity that Zhang Ke didn't provide any new ideas, and he was still entangled in the question of whether zombies eat people or not.
"The next time you kill zombies, I'll show you one, and you won't talk back when the time comes. The blood of those guys was clotted, and no replacement bodily fluids were found. If you still rely on the original digestive system to consume energy, how can you let the body absorb it without blood circulation? That doesn't make sense. I think there are two possibilities that are the most reliable. First, the source of infection, such as viruses or bacteria, is parasitic in the brain and nervous system, and feeds itself by breaking down and absorbing the body. If that is the gospel for us, wait patiently, sooner or later they will starve themselves to death, and then we will not be afraid, the day will not be long! ”
In fact, Hong Tao has already dissected a few of them, although he didn't look at them too carefully, and he didn't understand anatomy and pathology, but from simple logic, he could still gain something.
"What about the other possibility?" Zhang Ke was very interested in this knowledge and listened very carefully.
"The other possibility is more tragic, these viruses or bacteria may be creatures that we have never seen before, and they don't need to eat at all to consume energy. They might be able to synthesize something out of the air, or use the Earth's magnetic field or something. If that's the case, we're afraid we'll have to fight a protracted war, and it's a question of whether we can win in this life. And if it doesn't keep it all over time, it can really evolve, and even infect animals...... If the streets are full of mutated wild cats and wild dogs, and swarms of mutated mice! Terrible, terrible...... Hey, I'll tell you both that if that's the case, we'll have to move to a high-rise building, maybe it's a bloody way out. At that time, whoever can keep up with whoever has the ability to protect themselves will have a better chance of living, otherwise they will basically wait for death! ”
Hong Tao has never been very good at complimenting people, and a good thing will be discounted when it comes out of his mouth. But he is the best at saying bad things, and only worse is not the worst, how scary it is.
“…… I'm going to practice flying stone ropes! Zhang Ke was the first to act, he didn't read the diary, and he didn't ask questions.
“…… I need a weapon, how do you know I can't protect myself without a weapon! "Early autumn stood at the door of the kitchen, boiling porridge while listening to the conversation between the two men. The more I listened to it, the more it tasted wrong, biting my lip and thinking for a moment, I took the initiative to make a request for progress.
"Weapons are easy to use, but no strength is useless. Wake up early tomorrow, the East House has a treadmill and rowing machine thrown by the previous tenants, just one person and one first. When can you run three kilometers in one breath and then talk about other things, if you can't even run away, it's useless to give you a submachine gun! Hong Tao really didn't mean to scare people to play, but he didn't mind taking advantage of this atmosphere to force Chu Qiu and Zhang Keduo to exercise.
These two are nesting in the sales office all day long, and the other is lying on the desk, both of which belong to extremely sub-healthy and inactive people, not to mention what muscles are not muscular, it is very good to improve cardiopulmonary function significantly.
After dinner, the three of them set out again like hamsters, this time targeting the gas canisters in Yard 52, a total of 10. Even though they are all 15-kilogram medium-sized tanks, they are also very precious, and they will be winter in two months, and you will have to count on them to keep warm. There is no electricity to live in the small courtyard, but without a gas canister you have to freeze.
In addition to work, you can also take a shower, and when Hong Tao cleaned up during the day, he paid attention to it, and there were two households with solar water heaters. This thing can produce water without water pressure, so it's still necessary to take a hot shower after a tiring day.
Before the disaster came, Hong Tao had to stay up until about 11 o'clock at night every day before going to bed, watching TV, playing games, reading books, reversing tools, radio, anyway, he couldn't sleep without exerting part of his energy, and it was still the same yesterday.
But after a long day of hard work and a hot shower, people just leaned on the sofa and began to fight, and even the matter of giving a haircut in early autumn was postponed until tomorrow.
"Make do with it, kid, we have to sleep separately, so that if anyone mutates, everyone else will have a chance to live, understand?" But there is one thing that must not be sloppy, and that is to prevent mutations.
The taste of sleeping in handcuffs Hong Tao had tasted it more than once in the detention room of the police station, and it was very uncomfortable, so he didn't want to handcuff Chuqiu and Zhang Ke anymore. The alternative method is to let Chuqiu sleep in the bedroom, while Zhang Ke goes to the bunk beds in the study to make do, and continues to occupy the sofa in the living room.
In fact, Hong Tao is playing tricks again, the bedroom and study cannot directly lead to the small courtyard, and the living room is the most convenient place to enter and exit. In case these two really mutated, he can just lift his legs and run.
In order to be more secure, he also found three hiking bags, one large, two small and one for each person, which were stuffed with alpine instant food, mineral water, magnesium sticks, first aid kits, strong flashlights, multi-functional knives, hiking ropes and rainproof cloths.
If something unexpected happens and you can't save it, run with your bag on your back. Courtyard No. 52 has been cleaned up, so you can find a room and not wander the streets.