Chapter 1: The End Strikes
Gxi
September 4, 2024.
My name is Jiang Sheng, and I am a social animal.
The only difference on this day is the inspection report in hand.
"Patients with pancreatic head cancer have a progressive increase in serum bilirubin due to the obstruction of the lower end of the biliary duct, mainly due to the increase in direct bilirubin content."
"It is mostly positive, but it is not very specific, because most gastrointestinal tumors can have elevated CEA. Positive gastrointestinal cancer-associated antigen (CA19-9) is considered to be a more specific indicator for the diagnosis of pancreatic cancer. ”
To put it simply, this is a report on the advanced detection of pancreatic cancer.
Looking at the list in my hand, I was not nervous or flustered, I don't know why, there was no fluctuation in my emotions.
I bought a pack of good cigarettes, which I had been reluctant to buy before.
Near noon, I knocked on my parents' door.
The doctor said that there will be 3-6 months for conservative treatment, but it doesn't matter.
"Sheng'er?"
Mother Lin Xiaoyi opened the door in surprise and looked at me, "Didn't you go to work today?" ”
"It's a day off today," I replied with a smile and walked inside.
Father Jiang Bufan is still like that, sitting on the sofa watching the opera channel on TV, while his mother is wearing an apron, busy in the kitchen, and bursts of fragrance are permeating the living room.
He looked at me and beckoned.
"Sheng'er, come and see, why can't I delete these software in my phone, I haven't downloaded them and they're here"
I have never had the patience to sit next to my father and take over the mobile phone, and delete the APP inside one by one.
At the dinner table, the mother was chattering as always: "You said that you are not a big child, what is wrong with the girl you introduced last time, Sister Wang's sons already have children, and everyone as old as you is a family, one day I always said that I urged you, and your father is not on fire." ”
I smiled, and my father hurriedly pulled the rice into his mouth, trying to quickly leave the topic.
A little more, it should be that I am gone, and my mother's words are still hovering in my ears for a long time.
Talking about cancer will only increase my troubles, but it's a pity that I can't fulfill my filial piety.
I exhaled deeply, sat in the car, listened to soothing music but couldn't suppress the fear in my heart, and cried for a long time holding the steering wheel.
There were many ambulances on the road hurrying by, one, two, and the strange thing is that I saw more ambulances today than in my life, and it didn't take long to see an ambulance whistling past with the alarm bell.
It was strange, but I didn't think much of it.
I bought a lot of beer, but I didn't want to do anything, and I even ignored the message from the leader on my mobile phone.
"Bullshit, I'm dying and I'll make you a cow and a horse, get out"
I turned off my phone and sat in the gazebo with two beers in my arms, the breeze blowing slowly, but this time I didn't feel comfortable, but my heart was in endless restlessness.
"Here, no one will come"
I muttered that when I was young, because I didn't have so many things to do, I often went to the beach near me with my friends.
Not far from the pavilion is an air-raid shelter, which was sealed a few years ago because a few people who went into the expedition fell to their deaths.
And this pavilion is also located on a cliff by the sea, most people don't know it, and even if they see it, they don't know how to get up.
Watching the clouds slowly wander in the sky, I took a sip of cold beer and couldn't help but sigh at the life of man.
The night was unforeseen, slowly crawling all over the sky.
Reaching out to the side, he found that the beer was gone, smiled and shook his head, the night was quiet, but the sound of the waves came and went.
Sighing, it was time to go home, filled the cans of those beers in plastic bags, looked up at the night sky again, and a crescent moon was hidden behind the dense clouds, only a little bit exposed.
"Let's go find a small gathering tomorrow", some sighed, after all, they are very busy now, they were short of money when they were young, and they are short of people now.
It's not easy to see each other.
Jiang Sheng grabbed the bag, and was about to leave when he saw a man standing on the handrail of the gazebo, holding the pillar of the gazebo with one arm, enjoying the general squinting.
Although it was strange, it was ignored either.
But as soon as one foot stepped out, he heard the man's high-pitched roar, which made him frown.
"I've enlightened a lot of people"
"But it didn't work, and no one wanted to enlighten me"
"So, I decided! Enlighten! ”
Jiang Sheng turned his head and saw the man take off his pants and output frantically towards the full moon.
"Holy! Crescent moon sky! ”
This scene deeply shocked him, and he was shocked in his heart, this person is a pervert!
"Let's go! Don't get excited, give me a set meal", although there are a lot of perverts, but they haven't appeared in front of his eyes.
Carrying the bag, he walked away quickly, and after a little more glance at Jiang Sheng, he felt that he was not worthy of being a person.
"Little brother, don't you feel bored after drinking for so long?"
Jiang Sheng raised his head, but saw that the man was actually standing in front of him, and he also took a cool pose.
Ignoring it, Jiang Sheng looked at him vigilantly and walked around.
"I know why you're like this, isn't it cancer?"
"Everywhere you go is fate, you and I have a reason, I believe you will stand out from this again"
Jiang Sheng didn't hear much of what he said, grabbed the plastic bag and ran back to the car quickly, clasped the car door and looked at the dark path, and felt a little relieved to make sure that the person was not chasing.
"... Dead pervert"
Although the seaside is relatively close to his house, there are seven or eight cars passing by on this road at night, and tonight is strange, the road is extremely quiet, and even some barbecue restaurants are closed doors, and they are rarely closed.
"What's the situation, is there a curfew?"
He was a little confused, but soon returned home.
"Xiao Kun, Xiao Kun, turn on the bedroom fog lights."
Skillfully patted the smart button on the wall, changed into slippers and staggered on the bed.
As everyone knows, a crystal clear spot of light penetrated through the wall, glanced at Jiang Sheng, who was snoring like thunder, and drilled into his head.
In the early morning of the fifth day, Jiang Sheng opened his eyes in a daze.
The body is very heavy, and the limbs are weak, which is the sequelae after drinking, or the increasing movement of cancer cells, which makes his whole body extremely decadent.
"What time is it..."
I rubbed my eyes, grabbed the clock next to the bed and looked at it, and found that I just closed my eyes and squinted for a while at seven o'clock in the morning.
Standing in the bathroom, looking at myself in the mirror with bloodshot eyes, I exhaled.
After making breakfast, I slowly turned on the TV as I fell on the sofa.
"Please close the doors and windows to ensure your own safety in a short time"
On TV, the announcer's general colloquial words caught Jiang Sheng's attention.
"What's the situation, is there an epidemic again?"
Pressing the volume on the remote control, the announcer's voice slowly expanded like a lightning strike and smashed into Jiang Sheng's brain, making him forget the sandwich in his hand.
"Don't travel! Don't travel! ”
"The government will ensure the safety of the people as soon as possible, if you see multiple armored vehicles or helicopter gunships appearing at the same time, don't panic, please wait for the government notice at home!"
Seeing this, Jiang Sheng clapped his hands suspiciously.
"Xiao Kun, Xiao Kun, open the sound insulation board and window"
As the soundproof panel slowly opened, the roar that could not be called human reached his ears through the cracks.
Jiang Sheng lay on his stomach at the window, his pupils contracted suddenly, the muscles in his calves began to tremble, and he collapsed uncontrollably to the ground, although his home was on the sixteenth floor.
But in the following scenes, the purgatory-like picture of the world continues to wash away his visual nerves.
"What's going on!"
He crawled backwards in fear, not daring to look at the scene again.
Pupils tremble, suddenly!
He quickly got up, ran to the shoe cabinet, grabbed the closed phone, and pressed the power button hard.
"Hurry!"
He pressed hard, urging frantically.
As the phone screen lit up, the messages stabbed into his chest like a lightning strike.
On September 5th, "Son! Are you okay! ”
On September 5th, "Son, have you seen the news, your father went to send you supplies, the government said that he would stay at home for a long time, and it seems that the city is going to be closed recently, saying that there is some virus coming in"
On September 6, "Son, have you received the supplies?" Why hasn't your dad come back yet, is it at your house? Why don't you answer my phone"
On September 7th, "Son, something is banging on our door!" Why don't you reply to my message! I'm so scared! ”
On September 8, "Son! Mom is so scared, if you see please reply to my message, okay?"
Jiang Sheng's heart was pierced, he opened the address book, and the phone called.
But the sound of no one answering made him feel like he was falling into an ice cellar.
"What the hell is this! What happened! ”
The scene downstairs and his mother's message made his mouth dry, and beads of sweat the size of beans rolled down his forehead.
Through the window he saw countless people, wandering through the neighborhood like corpses, blood melting into rivers flowing through the cracks of the streets.
Blood splattered from some walls to the second floor, as well as the men who had eaten the corpses and the burning vehicles, and the crashed helicopter gunship still buzzed on the ground.
The purgatory-like picture cannot be dissipated for a long time.
Boom!
At this moment, there was a sudden sound of crashing outside the door.
The gates were slammed and trembled a few times.
Jiang Sheng took a few steps back in fear, recalling the ambulances he saw speeding away yesterday, and he understood.
"Zombies..."
The virtual things that appear in the film and television themes really appear in this world.
Jiang Sheng muttered with a miserable smile: "Zombies... When I was cancer, did you tell me that zombies swept the world?"
looked at his still trembling fingers, stepped forward and lay on the cat's eye, through the small hole, Jiang Sheng couldn't help but burst into tears.
"Daddy..."
The zombie outside the door was Jiang Sheng's father, his eyes were cloudy at this moment, and a large piece of flesh was missing from his left shoulder, and the blood stains had dried up and turned dark red covering his entire body from the top of his head.
Mu Ne's mouth was open, and he was still carrying a large bag of ingredients in his hand, and he banged on the door after a few seconds, as if he was still waiting for Jiang Sheng.
He didn't hesitate at all.
There was a click, and the door opened.
He understood that his mother's last message was on the 8th, and today it was the 9th, and he had been in a coma for five days, which was estimated to be the cause of cancer.
Since this is already the case, what is the meaning of living, why not go with the second elder.
Opening the door, Jiang Sheng looked at his father, who had turned into a zombie in front of him, with a smile, "Son, I failed to fulfill my filial piety, in the next life..."
And his father, his nose twitched slightly, turned his head and saw Jiang Sheng with a gentle face, without any hesitation, opened his bloody mouth and bit it.
Blood gushed out, and the rusty smell of blood filled his nasal cavity, only at first it was painful, and the rest was not felt.
"Mom and Dad, I'm looking for you"
Jiang Sheng closed his eyes and was thrown to the ground by his father.
The Buddha said that if the soul of a person dies and returns to heaven and the seven spirits enter the earth, then we will meet again below.
Poof, ahem!
The rapid breathing made him cough wildly.
....
"! It hurts a little! ”
He sat up from the bed abruptly, gasping for air.
"What's going on?!"
His eyes swept over all the objects in the room in his sight, and he pinched his face again before he was sure, dreaming?
Jiang Sheng rubbed his eyes, walked out of bed in disbelief, and clapped his hands.
"Xiao Kun, Xiao Kun, open the sound insulation board and window"
This time, the sound outside the window did not have an inhuman roar, but the manic helicopter and the humming sound of the propeller swept Jiang Sheng's eardrums.
Looking out the window, there was no more blood, only part of the neatly organized army, quickly passing through the streets of the community.
From time to time, you can still see several soldiers detaining a crazy resident, shouting something into the walkie-talkie in their hands.
"What is this?"
"I crossed over?"
Jiang Sheng patted his face, suddenly remembered something, quickly ran to the shoe cabinet, and grabbed his mobile phone.
As the screen lit up, the date on it appeared, September 5th.
Didi~!
A message came from the phone.
On September 5th, "Son! Are you okay! ”
On September 5th, "Son, have you seen the news, your father went to deliver supplies to you, the government said that he would stay at home for a long time, and it seems that the city is going to be locked down recently, saying that there is a virus coming in." ”
Hurriedly dialed back.
Hearing that familiar voice made Jiang Sheng's heart feel a little calmer.
"Sheng'er, what's wrong? Your dad is over, and the things are delivered to him to come back quickly, or I'm a little scared when I'm home alone."
"Okay Mom, I'll go back with my dad later"
hung up the phone, which also convinced Jiang Sheng that those dreams should be like the protagonist of the Grim Reaper, a prophetic dream!