Volume 1: The Age of Rebirth Chapter 16: Human Nature in the Last Days
The day after the heavy rain, the city was cut off from water and electricity. The tsunami had inundated half of the city the day before, killing and injuring countless people.
On the third day, the administrative decree of the city government was completely paralyzed, and the municipal dignitaries lost contact and could not issue effective orders. Not only did the communication fail, but even all means of transportation lost their mobility. Heavy rain has carved each building into islands. In the low-lying area offshore, the second floor and below are completely submerged. In some urban villages, the occupants of low-rise buildings are on the verge of extinction.
On the fourth day, there were incidents of looting between the floors, and some of the homes of the residents on the lower floors who had opened the doors were robbed, and a number of homicides occurred during the escalation of the dispute.
On the fifth day, Li Zimu listened to the sound of slamming the door outside and was silent, in fact, he had heard someone at the iron fence of the building asking for help two days ago, but he never heard it.
Li Zimu knew that he suddenly rented the top floor of the apartment before the end of the world, and then sent a lot of materials, he definitely couldn't completely hide people's eyes, but today's sound was louder, and it was accompanied by the sound of iron smashing.
He wasn't worried, just let them smash it, the door was specially customized to strengthen the steel pipe production, and the lock was also a large anti-theft lock for the factory gate. Not to mention that ordinary iron can't be smashed, and the door must be smashed first to smash the lock.
As for the elevator, it stopped the next day and became an ornament.
The sound outside gradually weakened, and it was obvious that the people outside were not full enough to toss for a long time.
In fact, if the food in Li Zimu's house is distributed a little, even if it is with the entire building, it will be no problem until the torrential rain stops and the flood waters reced. But Li Zimu had no intention of opening the door to help.
It's not because of his cold-bloodedness and coldness, he has lived in the last days for many years, and he understands human nature too well.
He could almost completely predict the change of people's hearts and positions after he opened the door.
At first, everyone would be grateful to him from the bottom of their hearts, and they would go from floor to floor to tell each other that there was a good person who could help everyone get some food and water to tide over the temporary difficulties.
Then there are some people who eat more, some people who cleverly hide some food, and some people who have a large number of people in their families. These people would begin to beg Li Zimu for more food in a pitiful manner. Whether Li Zimu agrees or not, he will offend one party.
Later, at first, some small groups would choose to demand more food because Li Zimu was only one person. Of course, Li Zimu will choose to convince people with virtue.
In the end, the whole building will unite to condemn the crusade against Li Zimu: Why do you know that there will be such a day, but you only care about secretly preparing food and water for yourself, and completely ignore the lives and deaths of others, even if you remind everyone at the time, maybe it will not end like today. Now he has come out as a savior, a villain, and a hypocrite. Everyone must unite to control him, and we will distribute the food fairly at one time, and we don't need him to pretend to be a good person.
Even if Li Zimu just distributed all the food to them, they would also have internal coaxing in the process of distribution, and when the dispute escalated, it would inevitably kill many people.
He couldn't help laughing at himself, just think I'm going to die a few fewer people for your unity, let's not pretend to be good people.
When you are hungry, you naturally don't have the strength to kill each other.
Some people will definitely starve to death this time, but not too much. Most ordinary families can hold up on eating savings.
Only the rivalry caused by greed is irreconcilable.
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The heavy rain finally stopped after the ninth day.
The torrential rain stopped suddenly, and after this natural disaster that caused countless deaths and injuries in Poplar City, it finally took a turn, and countless people began to run to the balcony in ecstasy to call for help, but they saw a four-story urban ocean outside, and the dark clouds in the sky were still boundless, and their voices were dumb.
So they began to understand that the disaster was not over yet.
Three days later, the flood waters receded to seventy-seven or eighty-eight.
The hungry people took up arms and walked out of their homes, because they had already discovered that there were many strange fish and sea beasts in the flood that they had never seen before, and they were stranded as the flood water receded. Even though these strange creatures are so tenacious that they can't die for a while, they can't move without the water.
No one dared to touch those fish beasts that looked too huge and too weird in appearance. And since someone successfully killed a strange fish more than a meter long and shaped like a sturgeon and dragged it home, the rest of the people couldn't wait and see.
If you wait any longer, you won't starve to death, I'm afraid that all the fish will be hunted. After all, no matter how many fish you have, the shelf life is still very short.
Many of them fell ill halfway through, and soon they staggered to their feet, their eyes bulging out. When they saw a living person, they pounced on it and bit it.
Zombie infected spores have dispersed in the air that humans breathe.
The zombie tide has exploded again, and this time it is even more violent.
Almost more than 30% of humans turn into zombies at the same time without warning.
The proportion of middle-aged and elderly people accounts for more than seventy percent. The proportion of young, vigorous and energetic children is very small, only about 20%.
And the sudden pervasive zombie transformation caused a large-scale riot to break out in many groups of human beings.
Many small groups that were originally huddled together to survive were wiped out in a panic because of the zombies that suddenly appeared from within.
Now is the real catastrophe, and almost every inch of the city where there are human settlements is erupting in heart-rending screams.
Li Zimu looked at Zhao Xiaojie with some concern, although the child's zombie conversion rate was very low, but Zhao Xiaojie was weak, and he didn't dare to guarantee that there would be no accidents.
He has always felt deep guilt and self-blame for the tragic death of his parents, and Zhao Xiaojie is almost his sustenance to slow down this knot. If Zhao Xiaojie really turned into a zombie, he didn't even dare to imagine whether he could do it.
Li Zimu sat in front of the bed until noon. He looked at the Carthew EQS500 watch in his hand, 13:07. Zhao Xiaojie on the bed was still calm as usual, breathing a sigh of relief, if he could survive the first time, the probability of subsequent corpse transformation was extremely small. And after the human race advanced to the new human, it was basically immune to the spores in the air.
At that time, only the first embrace transformation in the high-level zombie corpse will be left, usually speaking, it is bitten by a zombie stronger than you.
However, zombie attacks are primitive and brutal, and most of them are addicted to cannibalism. Therefore, the probability of being eaten by zombie attackers is actually much greater than that of lesions.
In the last days, the night comes very early, even in the middle of summer, often after 5 p.m., the sky will be completely dark. And since the power outage, the city has lost its fingers.
But these are not big problems for Li Zimu. His eyesight is now comparable to that of a pilot, and his bloodline ability has a talent of its own: Dark Affinity, a talent with a wide range of bonuses.
Although the broader the bonus, the more mediocre it tends to be. However, Dark Vision is extremely good at these bonuses. His vision in the dark is now no worse than that of a feline at night.
It's just that the zombie action at night is more advantageous and more aggressive. He wasn't going to act in the home of the zombies. He decided to go out and investigate now.
He checked the equipment, gas masks, tactical jackets, tactical backpacks, ropes, flashlights, lighters, firewood knives and small items such as cloth tape, all of which are domestic brands, only the military boots are Bailie 740T and a saber Kappa 1217, which is known as the Great Zhutan Knife, are not domestic. The vast majority of these things were bought before the end of the world. Before the apocalypse, although he was a polite clerk, he had a dream of survival in the wilderness in his heart.
Therefore, there was actually a box in the small apartment I rented before, which was stuffed with a bunch of military fan equipment. I just didn't expect to use it today.
This time it's not wilderness survival, it's urban survival.