Introduction Chapter 1: Awakening (I)

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Lei Jin tried to open his eyes, but as if he had exhausted all his strength, his head seemed to have countless needles piercing.

The pain made him snort.

also made him understand that he was still alive.

I don't know who turned off the lights in the room, and it was pitch black.

Only one TV screen remained, and the room kept beating as the content flickered on and off.

The severe pain in his head made it impossible for Lei Jin to concentrate.

I couldn't see what was going on the TV screen, but there was always a voice, roaring hoarsely, a bit like the voice of the show host.

Ray tried to sit up from the bed, only to find that his hands and feet were tied to the bed.

After struggling a few times, he couldn't break free, and he was tied very tightly.

There are also a lot of data cables connected to the body and head, connected to the two devices next to the bed, and the equipment looks complicated, not like the life monitoring equipment in an ordinary hospital.

There are several displays on it, some of which display waveforms and some of which display data, and Lei Jin does not know what these waveforms and data mean.

On the chair facing the TV, a tall man sat when he noticed Lei Jin struggling on the bed.

"The world is ruined!" The middle-aged man turned his head to look at Lei Jin and said coldly.

After saying that, he turned his head to look at the TV screen.

The sharp stabbing pain in his head made the sound that Lei Jin heard intermittently, and only faintly heard the word "destruction".

Lei Jin gave up the struggle, fell back to the bed, closed his eyes again, and tried to take a few deep breaths, hoping to relieve the stinging sensation in his head a little.

In the darkness in front of me, a beating electronic clock suddenly appeared, an electronic clock that counted down.

The number shown above is "36:53:36".

It's counting down, beating second by second.

Lei Jin broke out in a cold sweat, and the stinging pain in his head seemed to have eased a lot, and he opened his eyes and turned to the bedside table.

On the bedside table was a clock counting down.

I couldn't help but groan, who is so bored to put a countdown clock.

But there is a kind of anxiety slowly growing in my heart, as if there is a shadow that is constantly spreading and magnifying.

"The world is ruined!" The staccato voices just now seemed to be connected and became clear.

I don't know if it's my own delusion or if my brain has woken up.

But at this moment, Lei Jin did wake up.

The man sitting on the chair in the center of the room was Dai Zhao.

Just now, I just saw a figure in a daze, but now I can see it completely.

Dai Zhao sat there with a solemn face, his hair combed neatly, and his fair face was a little unsmiling.

With the remaining half of the cigarette in his mouth, smoke rose in the room, and the ashtray in front of him was already full of cigarette butts.

"Uncle Dai, why are you here?" Lei Jin couldn't remember what had happened before, and he had forgotten where he was, and this room looked very strange.

Dai Zhao is a good friend of Lei Jin's father, in terms of age, he is actually not much older than Lei Jin, and he is only eight or nine years old.

It is not an exaggeration for Lei Jin to call him brother, but the relationship between Dai Zhao and Lei Jin's father is very good, and if the two call each other brothers, Lei Jin can only call him uncle.

"Finally awake? Is there anything uncomfortable? Dai Zhao heard Lei Jin's voice, extinguished half of the cigarette in his mouth, stood up and walked towards Lei Jin.

came to the bedside, looked at Lei Jin, and asked again: "Do you know who you are?" Is there anything wrong with your body? ”

"No kidding, Uncle Dai, of course I know who I am." Lei Jin was a little impatient, and it made him very uncomfortable to be tied to the bed like this.

Dai Zhao seemed to frown slightly when he heard "Uncle Dai".

Dai Zhao still took off all the data cables that were connected to Lei Jin's body, and untied the straps tied to Lei Jin's hands and feet.

"Tie it up for your good!" Dai Zhao said as he untied it.

"But I don't know how I got here, my head hurts so much, it feels like it's going to explode!" Lei Jin unconsciously snorted again.

Ray moved his hands and feet, and his uneasy mood was slightly soothed.

Although he was surprised that he was tied to the bed, he was not so anxious when he saw that it was Dai Zhao in the room.

"Remember what happened?" Dai Zhao's eyes were firmly fixed on Lei Jin, trying to interpret Lei Jin's every move.

"What is this place and where am I? What's going on with this clock? Ray turned his head to look at the clock on the bedside table.

"36:51:46", the numbers on the clock are still beating.

Looking at the countdown clock, Lei Jin couldn't help but calculate it quickly and involuntarily.

Another 1 minute and 50 seconds passed!

What the hell is this! Why is there a clock counting down again. Lei Jin's heart began to go a little crazy again.

An unfamiliar environment, a countdown clock.

"Look at your left wrist!" Dai Zhao stretched his neck, and his chin made two strokes in the direction of Lei's left wrist.

Lei looked at Dai Zhao closely, looking at his mysterious appearance, he tried to take his left hand out of the quilt and turned his head to look over.

He wears a bracelet on his left wrist, and the screen of the bracelet shows a time, and he is also doing a countdown, which is exactly the same as the countdown number of the clock.

Lei Jin was stunned, although he couldn't figure out what was going on at once, but he knew that this bracelet was not his, and he never had a watch, bracelet or anything like that.

He hated these bits and pieces.

Turning his head to look at Dai Zhao.

Dai Zhao also shook his head with a wry smile, "I don't know where it came from, I was there when I got here, and I didn't dare to take it down casually." ”

"Didn't you put it on me?"

"This is my studio, funded by your parents, and they also have the key here, they should have sent you here. Called me two days ago and asked me to take care of you, and when I came here, you were already lying there, and the clock and bracelet were already there. Dai Zhao said, pointing to the clock on the bedside table.

Lei had never been to Dai Zhao's studio before, and now that he thought about it, he didn't seem to know anything about Dai Zhao, he couldn't recall anything about Dai Zhao, only that he was a good friend of his father.

The rough industrial room in front of me doesn't look like someone living in it for a long time, and the whole room is more like a factory.

The red bricks on the walls are unpainted, exposed to the air, carved with a little time to mottle. There is also a bit of retro style of the old alley.

The steel beam structure at the top of the room is also not decorated, and all kinds of cables are wound around it, and there should be various other data lines in addition to the transmission lines.

The room was a little empty and a little creepy, and Lei Jin could even feel the wind blowing in the room.

In addition to the bed where Lei was lying near, the most eye-catching thing in the room was a huge office desk against the wall, on which in addition to a mess of tools, there were drones, surveillance cameras and other things.

Lei Jin began to be a little curious, what Dai Zhao's profession was.

Dai Zhao said as he sat back on the chair in the center of the room, lit a cigarette, took a deep breath, and slowly continued, "You know what? The world is ruined! ”

"What!?" Lei Jin remembered the voice just now, and once thought it was his hallucination, but it turned out that he had not heard it wrong.

Lei Jin tried to decipher Dai Zhao's expression, trying to find traces of him joking.

"Really!" Dai Zhao seemed to feel Lei Jin's burning gaze, and pointed to the flickering TV screen.

Lei Jin's eyes hadn't fully adapted to the whole environment, and only the TV screen kept flickering in the dark room, making his eyes a little sour, and tears couldn't stop flowing.

It took a moment for the eyes to adjust to the environment and see what was on the TV screen.

The program on the TV is supposed to be the evening news of the Tokai City News Channel.

Ah Chen, the famous location host of the news station, occupies the largest picture in the center of the TV screen.

Ah Chen held the microphone in one hand and pointed to the distance behind him.

shouted hoarsely: "Audience friends, this is the live broadcast of the Donghai City News Station, unknown bacteria have been quietly spreading in the city for many days, and have caused a wide range of community infections, patients infected by bacteria attack the crowd like zombies, Donghai City has completely fallen into chaos, the police ......."

Before the words were completely finished, the camera captured a zombie flying on Ah Chen, knocking Ah Chen to the ground.

At this time, the zombie and Ah Chen were already out of the picture, but Ah Chen's screams of "Ah~~~~" could be heard very clearly.

Then the camera shook wildly, and the photographer should have been so frightened that he didn't know whether to rush to save people or turn around and run away.

Then the picture was cut off directly, and the picture suddenly returned to the studio, and the hostess pretended to be calm and continued to read the script.

Lei Jin admired the hostess a little.

"This is a replay of the news from ten days ago!" Dai Zhao pressed the remote control a few times, and the video started playing again, and Ah Chen's hoarse voice sounded again.

Lei Jin's head rose a little by this voice, "Can you turn off the TV, or turn down the voice, please!" ”

Dai Zhao turned off the TV and turned to face Lei.

"Do you know how you got here?"

"I don't know, I don't have any impression at all, where are my parents, didn't they send me here? Is there anything to eat? Hearing that after sleeping for more than three days, Lei Jin felt that his stomach was completely empty and began to be hungry.

"Wait a minute, I'll get you something to eat." Dai Zhao got up from his chair, walked to the refrigerator in the corner, and took out a bag of bread and a bottle of water.

After Lei Jin reached out and took it, he looked at the production date and expiration date on the bread packaging bag, the production date was almost two weeks ago, and the lid of the mineral water bottle was not sealed, it should have been filled again after drinking.

Lei Jin didn't think too much, directly opened the bag of bread, and took a piece of bread out.

The world is destroyed, what else is there to pick.

After taking a bite, there was not much other weird taste in my mouth except for the slight coolness, and the bread should have been in the refrigerator for a long time.

It's just that the water tastes a little weird when you drink it, with a hint of astringency and some indescribable tastes.

"It's rainwater that is collected after distillation." Dai Zhao pointed to the various glassware on the desk, which looked like his distillation system.

Lei Jin smiled embarrassedly, feeling that his expression was too obvious.

After nibbling on two slices of bread and drinking a small half bottle of water, he felt much more comfortable and returned the rest of the bread to Dai Zhao.

Dai Zhao carefully tied the bag of bread and put it in the refrigerator.

"What the hell is wrong with this world, where are my parents?" Lei Jin asked again.

The faint anxiety in my heart became more and more intense, where are my parents now?

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