(2-in-1)

Tang Xue looked at the photo on the tablet, and before she could speak, the bed board suddenly vibrate.

"Wow!"

Xiao Bai was woken up by the vibration and the sudden light, shouted a few times towards the door, and shrank to the bottom of the bed.

The two-story mobile room shook and shook along with the iron frame with hanging bottles hanging from the bed.

Since it was a makeshift house, it used old-fashioned chandeliers instead of ceiling lights, and the light bulbs swayed from side to side with the wires, and the lights flickered on and off.

Dr. Su was propped up on the side of the bed and almost fell.

She threw away the tablet, and after maintaining her balance, she said to Tang Xue, "I'll help you, get out of bed quickly." ”

With her help, Tang Xue left the hospital bed, and the two of them hid in the gap between the bed and the corner, with the bedside table on the left hand, the hospital bed on the right, and the corner behind them, all of which were above their heads.

The two buried their heads and covered their heads with their hands, and in the place of the second floor, as long as the head was not hit hard, even if the house collapsed, there would be no danger to their lives.

The position they chose was also exquisite, sitting in this position, the bedside table and the hospital bed and the corner of the wall can form a bracket to block the falling light steel plate.

In the event of an earthquake, if you don't have time to run to an open place, it's best to stay in the corner, go to the corner of a narrow room like the bathroom, and huddle in the corner to protect your head.

The shaking lasted for a while, and it was not a major earthquake, but because this mobile home had no foundation and was built with light materials, the shaking was particularly noticeable.

In fact, this kind of building structure is more conducive to low-budget shock absorption, because the weight of the light material is small, and the seismic force is also small, even if it collapses, it will not crush people to death, and they may be injured, but at least there is no life.

On the contrary, it is a brick house, with very thick walls, which may be able to bear more vertical gravity loads, but sometimes it will attract greater seismic forces, and if the strength of the materials is not up to standard, it will not withstand the large seismic force, it will easily collapse and kill people.

One of the best earthquake-resistant houses is a well-designed steel frame house, but that's not a house that can be built in a few days.

After a few minutes, the earthquake finally stopped.

It seems that there is a problem with the wiring of the mobile house, the light of the electric lights is extinguished, the screen of the flat panel emits a faint blue fluorescence outward, and the searchlights are still on on the construction site outside, and the afterglow shines in through the window, and you can barely see things.

Ten seconds after the earthquake began, sirens sounded outside, and everyone quickly ran out of the house and gathered in an open area.

"Let's go out first, and then we'll talk about other things." Dr. Su helped Tang Xue to her feet.

After more than ten days of recuperation, Tang Xue could barely walk, and Xiaobai followed them and went downstairs together.

There was a neatly lined line standing outside the building, someone was taking a roll call, and the entrance of the building was guarded, as if they had just arrived, and after seeing Dr. Su, they stood up straight and saluted in unison.

Dr. Su nodded slightly: "Go to an open place to prepare a tent, there may be aftershocks." ”

The soldiers were immediately mobilized when they received the order, and soon tents were erected in the open area, and people came and went, bringing lamps and sleeping bags.

The base has gradually taken shape, and when you look out, you can see the guard towers and defensive lines built by the outer line, a circle of trench-like pits dug around the sea line, evenly distributed heavy tanks, and army green chariots.

The line was manned 24 hours a day, heavily armed, well-armed soldiers erected the Gatling, wrapped around it with wire rings, had drones patrolling, and there was probably a minefield outside, which was exactly what it looked like a military exclusion zone.

Tang Xue was helped to a mattress in the open air, the sky was overcast, a damp cold wind blew from the sea, the temperature was very low tonight, Dr. Su brought a cotton blanket and put it on her shoulder, the diesel generator set over there rumbled, and a power strip was pulled to this side, with an electric kettle.

Four or five people held the canvas, made heavy dingmao on the gravel floor, pulled up a large canvas, and set up a square, spacious tent.

The electric kettle was filled with water and plugged in, and the water boiled, and white steam came out, making a gurgling and bubbling sound.

A cup of hot water was handed to Tang Xue's hand, and the ceramic wall of the cup transmitted the water temperature to her palm, warming her frozen and stiff palm.

The tent's curtain was open and hung up to allow a clear view of the soldiers moving outside.

The environment is undoubtedly safe and comfortable, and everything is taken care of.

"What's going on when you come to me so late?" Tang Xue held the cup to warm her hands.

"The reconnaissance plane transmitted back a photo ten minutes ago, when they were on a regular patrol, they encountered a strong infected person who tried to shoot them down with acid at a distance, they shot at the strong infected, after the shooting, a humanoid creature in clothes landed in the beam of the searchlight, there was a very strange phenomenon in the vicinity, according to the eyewitness report, they found several strong infected at the same time, not a single one."

Dr. Su flicked the screen and found the photo.

"I want to ask you if you have an impression of this back."

Tang Xue looked at the screen standing in front of him, the photo was very blurry, after all, it was late at night, or a sudden capture, it was not easy to see an outline.

As she observed, someone came to the tent door, carrying a new flat plate and wearing protective masks, but they were dressed slightly differently from the soldiers, their protective suits were white, and they had a strong smell of disinfectant on their bodies.

"Teacher, it doesn't seem to be a naturally occurring earthquake just now."

Dr. Su frowned and took the new tablet.

She pressed play and played the video that had been called up.

Tang Xue's eyes were also attracted by the video, which was very noisy helicopter pulp and engine sounds.

The video shot from top to bottom is a bird's-eye view, with beams of light in the distance, and several helicopters circling around the thing, and flashing red lights can be seen in the darkness, which is a remote-controlled drone.

The shots of all the flying units focused on the thing below, Tang Xue had observed it from a distance, it was a "ovary" where zombies were clustered together, and the dense layers of zombies were stacked on top of each other to form a zombie building.

They are covered in black syrup, which clings like spider silk to tall buildings, forming a terrifying thing like a huge nest.

Helicopters photograph it at great heights, and drones fly around it.

But in the next second, the motionless thing suddenly shook, and even the surrounding buildings shook, and its outermost shell began to melt and peel off, and the hard liquid softened and dripped downward.

Like chocolate melted in summer, the zombies embedded in the shell flowed to the ground with the melted liquid.

This extremely strange scene lasted for several minutes, just in time to correspond to the earthquake just now.

Through the video, you can see that the size of the "ovary" has become significantly smaller, the drone lowers the altitude and goes to a lower place to shoot the video, and the helicopter shines bright lights from top to bottom.

Then the picture on the screen changed, becoming the perspective of the drone, and the details of those zombies could be observed more clearly.

The appearance of these zombies is completely different from the appearance of ordinary zombies, and has changed dramatically.

The first is that their bodies have become extremely thin and long, each one is skinny and bone-like, like a dried corpse that has been dried for a long time, their bone shape has also changed greatly, their arms are extremely long, placed vertically on the sides of the body, almost reaching the calf, and the limbs have become longer and thinner, skinny, and under the illumination of the light, the surface of the skin has a porcelain-like luster.

Their palms and feet have become unusually sharp, and long, charred nails have grown.

Each one was trapped in a black, viscous liquid, unresponsive, sliding down with the flowing liquid.

"Help me transfer to the live feed."

Dr. Su handed the tablet to a person next to him, and he dragged the power strip over it, plugged in something like a transmitter, and connected the data cable to the tablet and an external keyboard.

After some incomprehensible operation, he soon called up a live broadcast screen.

Compared to the video that has just been processed, the real-time picture is very unclear and cluttered, and there are seven or eight shots split into the screen at the same time, and there is a lot of noise, coming from the sound of the wind and the sound of the propellers.

Everyone's attention was focused on it, perhaps fearful and curious about the sudden change.

The drone flew to a lower place, only two or three meters above the ground, and photographed the zombies that had slipped down at close range.

More details can be seen, their heads have no facial features, or are completely shriveled and sunken, leaving only dark and hollow eye sockets and sunken nostrils, and the color of their skin is charred black, as if it has been dried by fire.

Dr. Su's face was serious, moving back and forth between seven or eight frames, and she was silent, her attention completely focused on this frame, sometimes lingering for a long time in one shot.

She was thinking, preoccupied, no one bothering her, all quietly gathered around her.

After a few more minutes, she suddenly switched to a frame, zooming in on a zombie.

Everyone could see the changes in the zombie, its body became fuller, it was absorbing the slow-flowing black liquid around it, like a fungus soaked in water would expand, and its shriveled muscles also appeared.

Someone swallowed a mouthful of saliva, clenched his fists, and seemed to be very nervous.

Tang Xue also stared at the picture on the screen, and was suddenly stunned for a moment.

"Is it moving?"

She pointed to the zombie's finger, which was trembling slightly.

The mutation happened, and its slender waist bent forward, and it sat up with strange movements, and it felt like it was being pulled up by something, like a marionette being manipulated by the cotton threads on the shelf.

It stood up, then turned, lay down, opened its mouth that was cracked to the base of its ear, took a large bite of the mushroom, and swallowed it with its head up.

More zombies stood up and did the same movements, their bodies becoming fuller, still slender but more and more powerful.

As the minutes ticked by, the air was a little suffocating.

Dr. Su's gaze remained focused on the screen and never left for a moment.

Eventually, some of the zombies stopped eating, struggling in the muddy slurch, staggering, and even falling to the ground after standing up.

It was raining, the rain was dripping from the dark sky, and it was raining even outside the tent, and the wind blew the trail of the rain, and the raindrops the size of beans fell in, and soon the sound of dense rain sounded ticking.

A drop of muddy rain fell on the screen, and even the drone's camera was blurred by the rain and fog, and in the haze, you could see that the movements of those zombies were getting smoother and smoother.

Their tall and thin bodies help them to stand in the mire with ease, they are on all fours, crawling and walking, moving in groups in a certain direction, from walking to running, and in the perspective of the bird's eye, into black "waves" surging, extremely fast, leaving an arrow-like trail in the silent ruins of the city.

Dr. Su switched to the drone's camera, and at this moment, the picture on the screen suddenly turned around.

A ghostly face was pressed against the camera, and there was nothing in the deep eye sockets, as if staring at the person through the screen.

The next second, the screen flashed electronic flowers, and the signal of the drone was interrupted, and it was captured and destroyed by a zombie.

"These are all agile S1 type strong infectives, and they can reach the full sprint speed of a cheetah at the fastest, and can climb walls." Dr. Su's face was solemn: "We can't let them get close to the base, their head is smaller than the average infected body, and it is difficult for bullets to kill them, this number, we must use large-scale weapons to bomb them all before they get close to the base 2 kilometers away." ”

"Did Hela discover our presence? To lay siege to us? Someone asked.

"Possibly, this is an example that has never been seen before, and if I can, I hope to catch some infected subjects as experimental materials, and inform the defense forces so that they are ready for battle, and maybe bombers may need to be used."

"But they're not heading north." Tang Xue interjected, pointing to the newly switched screen: "I remember the map around here, this side is the north, and they are heading west." ”

"West?" Dr. Su was stunned for a moment.

"What's wrong?"

"That picture was taken in the XC zone." Dr. Su frowned, "Go and inform the reconnaissance team so that they can track the movement of this group of S1s." ”

"Do you need to shoot them?"

"Machine guns do not play a big role, and to deal with such a number of clusters only massive thermal weapons can be used."

The rain was heavy, and the sound of rain outside the tent did not stop, and the raindrops smashed on the roof of the tent.

(End of chapter)