Reborn in the end of the world, I scavenged in the empty city and bought for free

The black market camp also encountered the same problems as the Hongcheng base and the A-area wanderer base.

Compared with the previous two bases, the black market camp seems more precarious. The black market camp is located in a large industrial park before the apocalypse. The walls here are relatively low. Although people were arranged to reinforce the surrounding walls after the apocalypse, some walls are only four meters high. The average height of the wall is less than three stories high. In the past, the most they could rely on the outer high-voltage power grid to intercept some of the mutant animals.

The extreme cold weather some time ago caused part of the high-voltage power grid to malfunction, resulting in the inexplicable appearance of mutant animals that had never appeared before in the camp, and directly leading to varying degrees of casualties among more than a dozen people.

Originally, the camp planned to arrange personnel to repair the outer high-voltage power grid immediately after the extreme cold ended, but who knew that the zombie virus would appear at this time.

The zombie virus first appeared in the camp when a family of three failed to pay their rent on time for several days, so the staff of the camp management department went to investigate. After knocking on the door many times without receiving a response, the staff had to ask the landlord to take out the spare key and force entry into the house.

As soon as the door was opened, a foul smell of decay filled the house, making the two of them feel nauseous. The house was so dark that it made their scalps numb. The most disturbing thing was that the more they went inside, the more obvious the stench became.

Before the staff could report the situation here, the landlord, who entered the bedroom first, screamed, followed by the sound of a violent struggle in the room.

Before the staff could rush forward to check the situation, they felt a foul smell mixed with cold air rushing towards them.

When I looked up, I could see clearly that it was a boy of about 11 or 12 years old, with his left eyeball drooping in his eye socket, a gray face and dried blood stains around the corners of his mouth.

The staff member was startled but quickly took out the pistol from his waist and shot the boy.

After being shot in the chest, the boy just staggered back a few steps, but he didn't show any sign of falling down. He then opened his mouth, revealing a mouthful of sharp teeth that did not belong to a human, and continued to bite.

The staff member couldn't help but curse, "Fuck, what the hell is this thing!" This time the bullet mercilessly fired at the boy's forehead again.

This time the boy fell to the ground with a loud bang, his brain splattered and he kept twitching. His exposed skin had almost turned the same bluish-gray color as his face, and black threads seemed to be faintly visible wriggling under his blood vessels.

There were still slight gnawing sounds coming from the room. I don't know if it was because they had been hungry for too long, so the "two people" in the room were not interested in the situation outside at all.

Through the crack in the open door, the staff could vaguely see that there were two adult men and women. The woman was holding an arm in her hand and chewing it with relish, while the other man was bending over and crawling on the ground, feasting on the landlord who had already been ripped open.

The staff member who saw this scene was horrified, and then looked at the boy who had been lying on the ground and had not moved for a long time. Then he had a vague guess in his mind, so he immediately turned around and ran back, still remembering to lock the door when he went out.

The person in charge of the black market received the news very quickly. Jiang Tao's expression was not very good at this moment. He had just received reminders from Jiangcheng Base, Hongcheng Base and several other vagrant camps.

"Zombies? Do these things really exist?"

Liu Qi, Jiang Tao's administrative secretary who is also an A-level psychic, nodded and said, "We cannot rule out its existence. It may be a virus mutation. Mr. Jiang can take a look at this video."

Looking at the laptop computer Liu Qi handed over, Jiang Tao clicked on the two-minute-long video. The video should have taken place in a homeless base camp. Only the thick iron fences at the base could be seen through the shaky camera, and beyond the iron fences was a rotten and distorted face. These people tried to destroy the outermost layer of the iron fence with their sharp nails, and they kept making low hissing sounds from their mouths. There were a total of five or six such zombies, ramming the iron fences with loud noises.

"This is a picture taken at the homeless base in Area A. Sixteen people have died there, and some of those bitten will eventually mutate."

"Mutation? In other words, they turned into monsters that are neither human nor ghost like the ones in the video?" It is really hard to describe whether they can still be called human beings. After all, they have lost the ability to think as human beings. However, their essence is indeed transformed from humans.

Liu Qi nodded and continued, "We just received information from the Hongcheng base. They mentioned that there are many mutant zombies. People who are bitten will mutate at different speeds depending on the body part. What we know now is that these mutant zombies may have initially mutated due to the use of a strange water source."

"Water source? If there is a problem with the water source of our base, then everyone in the entire camp will be mutated." Jiang Tao's eyes turned cold.

Liu Qi's eyes darkened and he explained, "It's not the water source in the camp, but an ancient well two kilometers outside the camp. I sent people to investigate. This ancient well has always had clean water, so residents living near the fenced area occasionally go there to get water for daily use."

The black market base is short of water resources. Like other bases, it is close to mountains and rivers, so the water they use is provided by the water plant, sold at 100 points per cubic meter. Such a price is difficult for ordinary families to afford. After all, a family of three uses more than one cubic meter of water per month. Therefore, even though this well is one or two kilometers away from the camp, there are still many people going to the well to fetch water on weekdays. However, after the extreme cold some time ago, the number of people fetching water has gradually decreased.

"How do you know there's something wrong with the water source in the well?" Jiang Tao frowned, with more and more questions in his heart.

Liu Qi brought up another document, this time it was a test report on the water source, which showed that some of the substances extracted from the well water overlapped with a certain element in the blood of the mutant zombies.

"The test report came from the Kyoto Research Institute. My sister works there, so I asked her to help."

Liu Qi's entire family stayed in Kyoto, and they were all scientific researchers in important departments. Only Liu Qi stayed in the black market after being rescued by Jiang Tao at the end of the world. As for the government's jurisdiction, Liu Qi thought that the black market was more suitable for his personality. In addition, the current laws and regulations of the black market were more in line with his ideas about the end of the world.

Because his family is engaged in biological research, Liu Qi's family in Kyoto contacted him and revealed the news at the beginning of the zombie virus outbreak. It was not until the zombie virus first appeared in Jiangcheng, followed by the emergence of mutant zombies in the large base, that Liu Qi remembered his family's reminder at the beginning of the month.

After reading the report, Jiang Tao's expression gradually turned cold. He tapped his fingers on the table and spoke slowly and firmly: "If the zombie virus breaks out, our camp will not be able to hold out for too long, so we must implement martial law control before that."

Liu Qi clenched his fingers slightly. Recently, there have been several reports in the camp about neighbors behaving abnormally and biting people indiscriminately. The health center has even received a number of cases similar to rabies.

At this time, the people in the camp have not received any news from the outside world, but Liu Qi is very clear that now not only the black market camp, but also several major bases have been infected with the zombie virus. If the zombie virus continues to spread, all of humanity will suffer an unprecedented devastating blow.

Jiang Tao's eyes were dark, and when he finally raised his head, his face looked a little more haggard. Finally, he said softly, "Send the notice. If there are any suspected infected people during the martial law period, they will all be sent to the southern prison for isolation."

"Is it inappropriate to send someone to quarantine just because he is suspected?" Liu Qi did not expect Jiang Tao's attitude to be so resolute. After all, sending someone to a prison in the south is equivalent to death.

Liu Qi was about to say something else when Jiang Tao raised his eyes for a moment, his eyes becoming even colder.

Liu Qi knew that Jiang Tao had already made up his mind and could only nod obscurely. Although he was unwilling to solve the matter in this way of "better to kill by mistake than to let the criminal go", he had to admit that this was currently the most effective and fastest way to control the spread of the zombie virus.

Zhang Yan had just walked out of the company. Most of the real estate in the county before the end of the world was still preserved in the black market camp. The office building where her current company was located was the former building of the County Gardening Bureau. The five-story building was not destroyed during the earthquake but was well preserved.

Zhang Yan's home is about three kilometers away from the company. It usually takes about twenty minutes to ride a bicycle there. She pushed her bicycle and rode for a while as usual. Because she had to work overtime today, it was already dark when she left the company. She rode about a hundred meters before she saw a shaky street lamp, casting strange shadows on the ruins on both sides.

Zhang Yan had long been accustomed to such darkness when walking on this road on weekdays, but today when he walked, he somehow felt a little inexplicably uneasy in his heart, as if there was a pair of eyes watching him in the darkness, which forced Zhang Yan to speed up his steps.

The bicycle wheels cast circles of afterimages in the light, and the air was filled with the "crunching" sound of the bicycle chain.

I don’t know if it’s because it’s completely dark, so my senses are infinitely magnified at this moment, but I always feel that everything around me is so quiet that it makes me feel uncomfortable.

Zhang Yan couldn't help but speed up his pace, but because of this distraction, the wheel of the bicycle hit a protruding stone in front of him, causing the entire front wheel of the bicycle to rub against the ground violently, and finally the front of the car twisted a few times.

Zhang Yan only felt that his whole body was thrown forward, followed by a sharp pain reaching the top of his head.

The bicycle fell to one side and she was thrown two or three meters away, with the wheels of the bicycle still spinning wildly.

After riding her bike for so long to get home, it was the first time she fell so hard that she had to lie on the ground for five or six minutes before she could get up.

The bicycle chain had fallen out and Zhang Yan was still more than halfway home, so he could only blame himself for his bad luck. He took out his cell phone, turned on the flashlight, squatted on the ground and started to put the chain on the bike.

After tinkering with it for another seven or eight minutes, his hands were covered with engine oil. Zhang Yan sighed deeply and got back on the bike only after he had finally finished tinkering with it.

Then at this moment, a slight sound similar to grinding teeth sounded behind me.

When Zhang Yan looked back, he could vaguely see a black figure slowly walking towards him in the darkness.