Chapter 1: The Mysterious Visitor
The sky here is dark, the seasons are like winter, and there is no sunlight all year round.
There is no traffic to be seen on the dark streets, only pedestrians with black umbrellas and masks, their eyes tired but hurried.
At this time, in an abandoned factory sat a young man with a sickly face, and at the young man's feet was scattered a medical certificate.
Name: Qin Yue
Age: 25
Occupation: Worker
Diagnosis: Multiple bone marrow carcinoma, cancer cells have spread.
Guidance: Conservative management.
The owner of the medical certificate was the young man in front of him, and two hours ago, the medical certificate was delivered to him, and the doctor told him that there were three months left at most, that there was little point in hospitalization, and that conservative treatment was recommended.
Looking at everything in front of him, Qin Yue's eyes turned red, this was the place he loved to sneak around with his friends when he was in the welfare home.
After graduating from the technical school three years ago, Qin Yue got his wish and entered the Machinery Factory of the Ninth District and became a machine tool worker who was envied by everyone in this era.
At this moment, but at three o'clock in the afternoon, the huge factory building is dimly lit.
Black snow like cotton wool fell unhurriedly from the collapsed roof, and there was a faint smell of engine oil in the cold.
This is Qin Yue's favorite taste when he was a child, in his cognition, there is no spring flowers, no scorching sun, only the endless cold and endless black snow in front of him.
"Thinking about it now, I was so happy, carefree, and I don't think about how many days I have left......
His bloodshot eyes were full of reluctance to the world, and he didn't expect to be diagnosed with bone marrow cancer just when everything was getting better.
Although this disease is very common in this day and age, it is caused by the radiation from the nuclear explosion during the cataclysm 25 years ago, but he did not expect that this 50% chance will one day fall on him.
Qin Yue's eyes were full of too much reluctance and unwillingness, and slowly turned into despair.
"Qin Yue." A cold voice suddenly came from behind.
"Who?"
Qin Yue turned around and saw an old man with a black staff walking towards him from the darkness, the old man was wearing a black cloak, and his sallow yellow withered face was crawling with knife-like wrinkles.
"It doesn't matter who I am, it's important that you know who you are." The old man said unhurriedly and stopped five meters away from Qin Yue.
"Of course I know who I am." Qin Yue looked at the old man with some displeasure.
"Really?" The old man smiled, "Then let me ask you, who are your biological parents?" ”
"I ......" Qin Yue's eyes froze, he grew up in a welfare home, and he had no impression of his parents, only knowing that he was carried to the welfare home by a mute little girl, and he has never appeared since.
"One can not know where one's end is going, but it would be painful to not even know where oneself came from."
When the old man said this, he looked around, "You came here today to miss the past, and secondly, you want to commit suicide, because the feeling of pain in the bone marrow is really uncomfortable." ”
"How do you know?" Qin Yue's face was surprised, because the old man had indeed stated the purpose of his visit.
"It doesn't matter, I'm here today to give you a chance to be born again, a chance to be reunited with your parents, do you want it?" The old man looked at Qin Yue with a smile on his face.
"A chance to be born again?" Qin Yue was stunned for a moment, and then smiled bitterly, "Then what are the conditions?" ”
Although Qin Yue didn't know what the other party's intentions were, in this era, fifty percent of human beings would suffer from cancer due to nuclear radiation contamination, and there were diagnosis books scattered on the ground, and it was difficult not to think about this in such an environment.
"Go back twenty-five years and help me find someone."
"Twenty-five years ago?" Qin Yue frowned, "Isn't that when the catastrophe just happened?" ”
"Yes, the year you were born." The other party nodded slowly, his eyes kept staring at Qin Yue's face change.
"If I can really go back, let alone find someone, I will kill people." Qin Yue smiled bitterly and looked up at the snowflakes on the roof.
"So you said yes?" The other party looked at Qin Yue unhurriedly.
"Yes, I promised, you can go now, right?" Qin Yue took a deep breath of the cold air mixed with the smell of engine oil, he was now bent on death, and he just wanted the other party to leave as soon as possible.
"There is still one last step left," the other party said, taking out a yellowed scroll from his arms and walking it in front of Qin Yue, the top was empty after unfolding it, "You just need to sign your name on this piece of paper now, and everything can become a reality." ”
Qin Yue stretched out his hand and took the scroll and looked at it, "There's nothing on it, how can I sign it?" ”
The other party smiled faintly, "Look carefully." ”
Although Qin Yue didn't believe the other party, he still took the scroll in front of him in order to cooperate, and suddenly, the ring finger of his left hand hurt, as if he had been pricked by something, Qin Yue subconsciously raised his hand, but a drop of blood fell right on the place where he signed.
Before he could react, his hand was empty, and the scroll returned to the old man's hand.
"His name is Old K, and the last place he was seen was ...... in City C."
The figure of the other party gradually faded away, and Qin Yue smiled bitterly after reacting, "How is this possible, it must be that I am hallucinating......"
Glancing at the diagnosis book at his feet, Qin Yue took out the dagger he had prepared in advance, and finally looked at this place full of memories and stretched out his wrist.
The moment the cold blade touched the skin, the ground suddenly shook, and at the same time, a crack in the ground was cracking from under his feet.
"What's going on?" Qin Ming's eyes were shocked, but before he could get up, a horizontal frame smashed down from the top of his head, his nasal cavity suddenly sore, and his eyes fell into darkness.
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"Bang-" With a bang, Qin Yue opened his eyes suddenly, and an empty tin box appeared in front of him, with a circle of trademarks wrapped on the tin box, on which was written "Special Forces Luncheon Meat", and at the bottom there was a line of spray-coded "Factory date August 5, 2022"
"In 2022?" Qin Yue sat up suddenly, "25 years ago? The strange smiling face suddenly appeared in his mind, and he quickly looked around, and found that he was in a huge abandoned shopping mall at the moment, with rows of shelves in front of him, and there was plenty of light in all directions.
Before he could react, his fingers touched something again, and when he looked down, he saw that it was a long knife with a straight handle, about one meter long, contained in a black holster, and at the same time, he also found that there was an extra black ring ring on the ring finger of his left hand.
Qin Yue didn't remember when he had worn the ring, and he couldn't take it off after trying several times in a row, as if it had been embedded in the flesh and bones and joints together.
"You're awake."
Suddenly, a hoarse voice came.
"Is that you?" Qin Yue hurriedly looked around, but he didn't see that strange figure.
"No need to look for it, here you only represent yourself."
"This knife is called Snow Shadow, and it sharpens iron like clay, killing people and devouring blood."
"And this Meteor Ring, it will expand the storage space with your own strength, and it is also the key for you to go back, and this lock is hidden on Old K,"
"Now, all you have to do is to get out of this door and face everything that comes your way, remember, you only have half a year, if you still don't find anything by then, the merciless disease will take your life, and the infected will eat your corpse, so good luck......"
The old man's voice was gradually disappearing, but Qin Yue's eyes were slowly becoming clearer.
After a short silence, Qin Yue picked up the snow shadow, glanced at the ring ring in his left hand, and walked out of the gate of the mall with a mess all over the ground.
The scorching sun hung high overhead, and there was silence all around, and what appeared in front of Qin Yue's eyes was the open-air parking lot of the mall, where hundreds of vehicles had crashed together, some had flipped on their sides, plastic bags and confetti were scattered on the ground, and blackened internal organs and mutilated corpses could be seen everywhere.
Although Qin Yue also grew up in the last days, he had never seen such a scene, even in the textbooks, there was only the appearance of the infected person, and there was no detailed description of the scene at that time.
Just then, there was a rustling sound from behind an overturned van.
"Who?" Qin Yue suddenly became nervous.
The sound stopped abruptly, and after a few seconds of silence, a hobbled figure walked out.
Seeing the other party's appearance, Qin Yue's heart was shocked, that face was exactly the same as what he saw in the textbook, the face was highly rotten, the eye sockets were deep, and the pupils were only the size of mung beans.
"Living corpses!"
Qin Yue didn't think much about turning around and running, the living corpse let out a low roar, and chased after him with his arms outstretched.
Although the living corpses move slowly, they will chase after their prey when they find it, and they will either get rid of them with headshots or broken necks, but the most terrifying thing is that they will summon their own kind, and once they are wrapped, there is no chance of survival unless you can fly.
Qin Yue panicked and quickly broke into the dead corner, seeing that the number of living corpses around was increasing, Qin Yue suddenly remembered the Snow Shadow Knife behind him, and pulled it out twice in a hurry, "Huh! With a bang, the bright blade emitted a cold light in the sun.
With a knife in his hand, his heart was full of anger, Qin Yue at this time seemed to be a different person, his eyes were full of murderous intent, and a cold light slashed down, and the head on the other party's shoulder flew out with blood flowers.
The blade of the knife shook, Qin Yue woke up like a dream, and before he could react, he saw more living corpses pouring over from all directions, and he ran with the knife at the moment, but there were more and more living corpses following behind him, and he finally ran out of the parking lot but was shocked by the scene in front of him.
In almost all the streets and alleys that could be passed, there was an endless stream of living corpses rushing towards him, as if there was something on Qin Yue's body that was attracting them.
At the same time, the corpses in the parking lot have also caught up, only less than twenty meters away from Qin Yue, and now there are chasing soldiers in front of the interception, and the corpses on both sides are also forming a circle.
Qin Yue felt hopeless, he didn't expect that he had just gotten rid of the pain of cancer, and now he was going to be dismembered by a living corpse again.
"God, you're really kind enough to care for me." Qin Yue smiled bitterly and looked up at the air, "If you can take a look at the real sun before you die, it won't be in vain......"
At this moment, there was a roar of a motor in the alley ahead, and then I saw a modified Humvee rush out of the corpses, and suddenly stopped in front of Qin Yue, "Get in the car!" ”