16 Convenience stores
Chi Xiaoxian was still asleep, and suddenly felt that someone was shaking him constantly, and in a trance, he heard bursts of sharp shouts.
He opened his eyes suddenly, gasping for breath and saying in horror, "What's going on outside?" ”
"Zombies have exploded in the building."
"What?!"
"I saw Liu Xi in the cat's eye just now." Fang Yue paused, "He has completely lost his mind. ”
"Isn't he locked up in the basement?" Chi Xiaoxian was stunned for two seconds.
It didn't take long for him to figure out where the joints were, his eyelashes trembled, and finally he lowered his eyelids.
"It's my attention." He muttered reproachfully.
Fang Yue shook his head: "Not necessarily, there are too many variables." Liu Xi would have been an extremely good research sample, he was the first person we encountered who did not immediately lose his will after the infection. To be honest, I have some selfish intentions as well, and I'm looking forward to bringing him back to the lab one day. ”
"But didn't you say he just had—"
"Yes." Fang Yue said, "He has also become like other zombies. ”
Fang Yue thought for a while and said, "But something must have happened in between. ”
They couldn't judge much, so they had to bring in more things to block the door firmly. In order to save money, the school first installed stainless steel door panels for them, which were very thin and easy to deform, and Fang Yue replaced them with thicker zinc alloy steel plates at his own expense, which gave them a sense of security at the moment.
When Chi Xiaoxian locked the window, his heart suddenly moved, and he mustered up the courage to look at the grass where Zhang Wensheng fell downstairs before.
"Zhang Wensheng is gone!" He exclaimed in surprise and beckoned Fang Yue.
Some of the grass in that weedy field was still lying on the ground, and it was clear that Zhang Wensheng's "corpse" was still pressed on it not long ago.
Fang Yue pondered for a moment and concluded, "The zombie's ability to recover from his actions is very strong. Generally speaking, jumping from the fifth floor, the bones and internal organs of the body are basically ......"
"Will the virus be repaired?" Chi Xiaoxian felt a little frightened.
"What is the specific reason, you have to really see Zhang Wensheng." Fang Yue said, "I don't think bones should be so easy to repair. Do you remember that there was a rebel army in the United Highlands? ”
"Hmm."
"In order to deal with the formal army in the highlands, they studied some biological experiments, such as cutting off the monkey's senses, including pain, and throwing it from a high place, the monkey was able to crawl forward involuntarily for a distance despite being crushed and fractured."
"It's cruel." Chi Xiaoxian frowned when he heard this.
After they took defensive measures, it was already three o'clock in the morning, and Chi Xiaoxian was so sleepy that he couldn't open his eyes.
"Go to sleep." Fang Yue glanced at him.
"Won't zombies break in?"
"The security door is not that easy, there should be a lot of survivors in the building, don't worry."
Fang Yue said calmly, his calm voice had a tranquilizer-like effect.
When Chi Xiaoxian woke up the next morning, Fang Yue had just finished fit.
Chi Xiaoxian got up from the bed and saw that Fang Yue had just taken off his T-shirt and threw it into the dirty laundry basket, holding a towel and preparing to take a shower.
He was naked, his body was thin, his skin was slightly sweaty, and his muscles were not exaggerated like those who had been carefully trained, but they were beautiful and well-proportioned, and his lines were smooth, very similar to his long body.
Chi Xiaoxian was still wandering between sleep and reality, staring at it in a daze for a while.
When Fang Yue left, he touched his lower abdomen, where there was only a layer of delicate skin, and below was a thin layer of fat.
The desire to work out long abs occasionally popped up in his mind, but it was quickly snuffed out by him in the cradle.
Then the volume of things, no, is not for him.
After the outbreak of zombies in the building, the dormitory life of the two is in a state of walking on thin ice, and the surface is calm, but the latent crisis will happen at any time.
They can only passively wait for the food to be eaten, and there is nothing they can do until then.
Chi Xiaoxian was playing with his mobile phone as usual, Fang Yue was reading the paper, and after reading it for a while, he picked up his mobile phone and dialed a call.
"Hello Dean, excuse me." Fang Yue exchanged a few words with the other side.
"Are you Fang Yue?! I haven't contacted you for a long time, are you about to graduate? ”
"Yes."
"How's it going over there? I see that the zombies in the southern highlands are spreading everywhere on the Internet, is it a new type of virus? ”
Fang Yue gave a general introduction to the situation with the person opposite.
"Are you calling to ask me for help?" The other side said, "I'm sorry, I don't have first-hand information, I can't give much advice, if only you could send me a blood sample." ”
"No, public transport and mailing services should be stopped here, and I can't send it to you. I have something else I'd like to ask you to help with. ”
"You published a paper on cryonics technology on July 22, and I have some questions about the experiments inside......"
Then he said a lot of professional sentences and vocabulary to the other side, which Chi Xiaoxian didn't understand at all.
"Haha, I'm an old friend of Professor Kevins. That's a good question, but I also need to take into account the physical indicators of the human body after it recovers to room temperature, and I will tell you more about it when you come to be my doctoral student. ”
Fang Yue thanked politely and hung up the phone.
"Are you working on cryonics?"
"My mentor is a technical consultant at a cryonics agency, so I also follow him to do some projects."
"Can any disease be cured after that? Just freeze it. ”
"It's not that simple. As far as current technology is concerned, freezing is not a problem, recovery is the key, there are hundreds of millions of cells in the human body, and freezing technology will disrupt their vitality. It is very difficult to ensure that the body, especially the brain, is not damaged. Even if this technology is really mature, it is bound to be a scarce resource, and not everyone has the conditions to use it. ”
Chi Xiaoxian nodded thoughtfully, "Then are you going to study for a doctorate in the future?" ”
"Hmm."
"After graduation, go to a government research institute?" Chi Xiaoxian thought about it again, "It's not bad to make prescription creatures, their company is a monopoly, and now the pharmacy is their medicine and nutrients, and the salary of employees must be very high." ”
Fang Yue said: "I plan to stay in universities to do scientific research. ”
Chi Xiaoxian: "Wow, the professor has winter and summer vacations, full marks." ”
Fang Yue raised his eyebrows: "So the focus is on winter and summer vacations?" ”
"Or else?"
Fang Yue shook his head helplessly, and asked Chi Xiaoxian what he wanted to do in the future.
"I don't have anything I want to do, and most of the work seems to me to be very anti-human."
"Require people to go to work at regular times, require squatting in the same closed office location, require compliance with some rules and regulations, require one group of people to obey another group of people, require introverts to become extroverted, and extroverts become steady......"
Chi Xiaoxian's tone became more and more indifferent.
"Anyway, I can't think of anything I'm going to do in the future. If you have to work...... Did you know that there was a newsstand in the Old World? Chi Xiaoxian looked at Fang Yue.
"The Old World?"
"Oh, that's the word in the game, it's the pre-disaster era of the early 21st century." Chi explains, "The newsstand was a place to sell paper newspapers and magazines, and at that time the paper media still existed, and people liked to buy a newspaper to read while eating or fishing at work. ”
"I just want to go to the newsstand and sell newspapers." Chi Xiaoxian dragged his chin and said, "When there are guests, I collect money, and when there are no guests, I read books and play games, lie down on the chairs in the pavilion, and watch the pedestrians and traffic coming and going outside." ”
Fang Yue imagined for a moment: "Sounds pretty good, it seems to suit you very well." ”
"I thought you'd think I didn't have an ideal, I didn't pursue it." Chi Xiaoxian was a little surprised and said, "You made me, a weak person, stronger before." ”
"That's worrying about your personal safety and keeping you alive." Fang Yue gently turned over a page of the book and said lightly, "It has nothing to do with the pursuit of life. ”
His words were as bland, but like a white feather, gently scratching Chi Xiaoxian's heart.
In order not to disturb Fang Yue, Chi Xiaoxian stopped talking, picked up his phone, and continued his game.
Goo didn't go out today, and it started to rain again in the forest.
Chi Xiaoxian built a small shed for it with two wide leaves, curled up under the leaves, and slowly licked the rain-soaked hair on his body, waiting for the rain to stop.
Chi Xiaoxian put on the headphones, and he heard the sound of rain in the game, rustling, falling on the leaves and making a rustling sound. There is a shallow mist between the trees, and you can feel a fresh vapor through the screen.
It's too realistic, too. If there really is such a place, he is willing to live in it for the rest of his life.
"You like it here, don't you?"
Gollum stood up and stretched his limbs, stretched and then lay down again: "This is the place we've stayed for the longest time." ”
"Do you want to leave?"
"I'll do whatever I want." Coo yawned, and the sound of the rain made it a little sleepy, "I'm just a kitten, as long as I have something to eat." ”
Chi Xiaoxian went to earn some gold coins, bought a fishing net, squatted in the mountain stream for a long time, and got two small fish and threw them into the backpack of the sidebar to use as reserve food for the lazy cat.
When he exited the game, he noticed a row of small white letters on the bottom line of the page - "Yueran Studios." ”
This must be the production team of this game.
After another four days, there was almost no movement of zombies in the corridor outside, but Chi Xiaoxian and their food were almost exhausted, and only protein powder remained.
One night, the power went out in the dormitory building unexpectedly.
Looking out of the window, it was as if an opaque dome had been buckled down, and the whole school was pitch black, filled with a heavy dead air.
In order to prevent the water from being cut off, Fang Yue found all the containers that could hold liquids, filled them with water and put them in the living room.
Two hours later, as he expected, the water was cut off.
Chi Xiaoxian was a little panicked, he hadn't experienced a life without water or electricity for a long time.
Fortunately, Fang Yue fully charged the two power banks every day, so their mobile phones could hold on for a while, but Chi Xiaoxian didn't dare to play games anymore.
Just when he was about to turn on the power-saving mode, he received a message from Tiaoyuan Chengmin.
Yuan Chengmin: "Are you going to escape?" I've been hungry for two days now, and I'm going to give it a go. ”
Chi Xiaoxian: "Do you have any suggestions?" ”
Yuan Chengmin directly forwarded a chat record between him and his friends. His friend originally lived in Building B, the dormitory building that fell shortly after the zombie outbreak, but he was in the graduate teaching building at the time, and he couldn't make it back, so he hid directly in the unmanned convenience store downstairs.
There was also a classmate who hid in the convenience store together. Fortunately, there was enough food, and the two of them have been living until now.
Yuan Chengmin: "Do you want to go to the convenience store with me?" I asked them, and they said that there was a warehouse behind the convenience store where people could live, and there was a lot of bottled water in the store. ”
Chi Xiaoxian thought for a while and replied, "I have to go with Fang Yue, if I want to go, the two of them will go together." Ask them if they'd like to take in one more. ”
Yuan Chengmin went to ask, but he didn't reply for a long time, and he was probably a little hesitant over there.
After all, one more person is one more mouth, resources are limited, and everyone has to think about survival.
Chi Xiaoxian suddenly remembered one thing, and sent a message to Yuan Chengmin.
"We have enough vitamins and protein powder here to ensure nutrition in exchange for taking us in."
Now Yuan Chengmin replied relatively quickly, "They said yes, but people will crowd some." ”
Chi Xiaoxian told Fang Yue his thoughts, and Fang Yue calculated the distance from the dormitory building to the convenience store, about one kilometer.
Fang Yue pondered, rehearsing the route in his mind: "It's a little far, but it's worth a try." ”