Undead

The worst scenario that Zhou Rong imagined finally happened. He stood on the roof of the factory building, put down the military binoculars, and looked at the sky thoughtfully.

The autumn water is long and the sky is long, and thousands of miles are like washing.

City B in the distance is devastated, like a huge tomb between heaven and earth.

"The national short-wave was interrupted, the base communication was cut off, and no one responded to the positioning signal. A whole week has passed, and the military region of City B must have fallen, but there is no nuclear bomb to clean it..."

Zhou Rong murmured, "What's the situation?"

There was a sound of climbing from the iron ladder behind, and someone said calmly: "Perhaps the military regions capable of launching nuclear bombs have all fallen, and no strong fortress can resist the internal collapse—you know it."

"Yan Hao," Zhou Rong said seriously, "If you imitate Si Nan again, I'll beat you up, really."

Yan Hao laughed and handed him a cigarette.

"Yo," Zhou Rong was a little surprised: "Do you still have stock?"

"Given by the masses."

"The People's Liberation Army can't take the masses one by one..."

"The People's Liberation Army stands guard and carries gas tanks for the masses. If you can't afford a cigarette, let's smoke yours."

The autumn wind was bleak, and the sky was high and the earth was far away. Zhou Rong and Yan Hao stood facing each other and smoked for a while.In the front yard of the factory building below, the men are gathering to install the barbed wire fence, and the work is in full swing. The women feed the chickens, grow vegetables, and chatter from time to time.

Zhou Rong flicked the ashes and said: "The defense construction will be finished in two days. I will go to the B military region to check the situation alone. You wait for my news."

Yan Hao immediately frowned: "Are you crazy? How much do you know about City B? Where are you going to get a helicopter?"

"..."

"If the B military region falls, there will be 10,000+ zombies crowded in the shelter. Do you think your life is too long or something?"

Holding a cigarette in one hand and rubbing his chin with the other, Zhou Rong finally said after a long time: "I feel a little weird. How did this virus come about, how will it develop, and why can the heavily-defended Military Region B fall? Tell me if there is any refuge in the shelter?" I don't believe in strict quarantine access. But if every survivor who enters a shelter is quarantined, why is the virus still breaking out from within?"

"Unless," Zhou Rong said in a deep voice, "the virus has mutated and escaped the currently known quarantine methods, just like those nurses in T City who were infected without being bitten."

A chill suddenly rose in Yan Hao's heart.

Zhou Rong said: "Speaking of righteousness, we are the top, most powerful, and highest-secret team of the special forces in the entire North China region, and it is also the team closest to City B so far. No one will know what happened."

"From a small point of view, if we don't understand the mutation direction of the virus, our little shelter can't last long-there are eggs under the nest, and we are so close to City B, how can we live in a corner?"

"..." Yan Hao was silent for a long time, and finally admitted: "What you said makes sense."

Zhou Rong shrugged his shoulders gentlemanly and stubbed out the cigarette.

Yan Hao thought for a while, then shook his head and said, "But you can't go alone, it's too dangerous. We need to have an action plan..."

"Us?" Zhou Rong laughed and said, "Why, let's go together? Then what about the [-]-somethings plus a pregnant woman? Who will protect them?"

Yan Hao was about to say something, when suddenly a man was carrying a box not far away, walked through the backyard, and happened to look up at the roof of the factory building.

——It's Simon.

Sinan found a researcher's white coat from the fertilizer factory laboratory, wearing goggles and gloves, with the cuffs stacked up to the elbows, exposing slender and powerful arms.

He carried a reagent box on his shoulder, stood in the open space, looked at Zhou Rong and Yan Hao, and smiled after a few seconds.

Then he didn't say anything, turned around and left.

"..." Zhou Rong poked Yan Hao, and said in amazement: "Did you find that he has been avoiding us these days?"

Side did not answer.

Zhou Rong looked back, Yan Hao jumped off the roof in a few steps, landed vigorously, and chased after Sinan.

Zhou Rong stuffed the cigarette butt into his mouth, chewed slowly for a while, and smiled self-deprecatingly.

He squatted by the eaves for a while, scratched his hair, and suddenly shouted at the top of his voice, "Cao'er—!"

Chuncao's voice sounded from the chicken shed: "What are you doing—!"

"What are you doing—!"

"Feed the chicken—!"

"Daddy help you feed!" Zhou Rong regained his energy, jumped off the roof, and passed by clapping his hands.

·

"What is this, nitrocellulose?" Yan Hao asked while standing in the open space, frowning.

Sinan spread a piece of cloth on the small space in front of the rear factory building, took out the wet cotton from the reagent box with tweezers, carefully spread it on the cloth, and said an English word: "Dispersoid."

"..." Yan Hao asked, "Did you mean dispersoid?"

Simon: "?"

The two looked at each other for a few seconds, and Sinan asked back, "Didn't I just say disperse matter?"

"You said 'Dispersoid'."

A momentary blankness appeared in Si Nan's eyes, and then he reacted and said perfunctorily, "You heard wrong."

He got up and turned to the other corner of the plastic sheet to continue laying cotton.

Dispersion is not an everyday English word. If you can slip it out, at least it means that the person has good English, or has a certain level of knowledge in chemical engineering——Yan Hao's eyes unconsciously showed some inquiry, but he didn't show it. He smiled and asked: " You want to make a nitroglycerin bomb?"

"Yeah." Si Nan said without raising his head, "I'll try. The nitric acid I've found so far isn't of high purity, and I'm afraid the nitrocellulose doesn't contain enough nitrogen to blow it up, but it's feasible to make an incendiary bomb."

Yan Hao opened his mouth silently, nodded, and finally couldn't help asking: "What did you do before?"

"What do you think?" Sinan asked back.

Yan Hao thought for a long time before admitting: "I can't guess it. You must have been trained professionally, high-level bodyguard or public security system? If it's the latter, you may be exposed to chemical explosives, and it must be a professional counterpart. Only high-level people can do it, at your age..."

Yan Hao looked at Sinan and felt that he looked quite young. He said that it was possible to be 25 or six, and it was not unreasonable to say that he was in his early twenties.

At this age, people who can shoot guns, have good car skills, and make explosives, except for one kind of people who don’t think about it——

terrorist.

Yan Hao's eyelids started to twitch wildly, and he asked tentatively, "...you don't believe in religion, do you?"

Si Nan was puzzled: "What teaching?"

Sinan carefully spread the last bit of nitrocellulose, let the whole piece of plastic sheet dry naturally to avoid direct sunlight, then got up and went back to the back workshop, which was a closed laboratory that he personally remodeled.

Yan Hao wanted to follow, but just as he took a step, Si Nan ordered, "Stand."

Yan Hao could only pause.

A few minutes later, Sinan pushed the door out and put down the cardboard box he was holding in his arms. Inside he saw a dropper, a piece of white paper, a hammer, and the motorcycle leather jacket and helmet he brought out from T City; Yan Hao Before he had time to ask for advice, Sinan waved his hand to signal him to stay away.

Sinan took off his white coat and goggles, put on his motorcycle jacket and helmet, and pulled the zipper up to his chin.After wrapping himself tightly like this, he used a dropper to draw the solution in the test tube, and carefully dropped a drop onto the white paper.

Then he put down the white paper, picked up the hammer, and took a deep breath.

At this moment, at the entrance of the chicken shed in the distance, a rooster was stimulated by something, screamed and flew out, and rushed straight to the open space——

Zhou Rong rushed to catch up and said angrily, "Don't run!"

boom!

Si Nan hit the white paper with a hammer, and the nitroglycerin reacted violently, causing an astonishing explosion in an instant!

The high detonation velocity of up to 7500 m/s produced dazzling flames. Yan Hao didn't have time to react.

boom!The rooster splattered blood and fell down in the air.

"Sinan!"

Si Nan fell to the ground, and Yan Hao rushed forward to help him up. He saw that the white paper had turned into ashes, and a bowl-sized pit had appeared under his feet, and fine sand and dust splashed all over the ground.

Yan Hao had never seen such a talented person who dared to dedicate himself to science in his life. He pointed at the pit for a long time and said nothing.Si Nan lifted off the cracked motorcycle helmet and let out a long breath: "Just now you wanted to ask me what religion I believe in?"

"..." Yan Hao said, "No, nothing."

"Comrades," Zhou Rong said sadly behind him.

The two turned their heads at the same time, only to see that chicken feathers were messy all over the yard, Zhou Rong's hands were covered in blood, and he was carrying a big rooster with a crooked neck and staring eyes, obviously dead.

"I have no problem with your scientific experiments, but since this is the only one with a handle in the chicken shed..." He shook the chicken head in front of Sinan and Yan Hao, and said coldly: "Congratulations, chicken The colony breeding program is officially dead."

Si Nan covered his nose and asked, "Can I have fried chicken at night?"

·

In the evening, there was no fried chicken, but fried sauerkraut with shredded chicken, and everyone in the shelter got a small spoonful.

"Fried chicken is not enough." Zhou Rong explained to Sinan in this way, and solemnly warned: "I hope you don't try to explode nitroglycerin at the door of the chicken shed every day for your own self-interest. We still need eggs."

He scooped up the spoonful of shredded chicken in his bowl to Sinan, only to hear Guo Weixiang on the other side of the round table, pulling at the chicken bones in the bowl, and suddenly let out a long sigh: "Oh—how good it is to be a rooster in the next life."

Chuncao wondered, "You took the wrong medicine, Xiangzi?"

"What do you know, if you are born as a rooster, you can have at least [-] hens, and you can sit there every day and watch the [-] hens compete and be jealous of you. But what if you are unlucky enough to be born as an Alpha?"

Guo Weixiang picked up a chicken rib and stared at it with otherworldly eyes: "According to the current ABO gender ratio, at least twenty Alphas have to fight for an Omega. If it's a Beta, it's even more useless. It is difficult to find a Beta girl to marry and have children, and it is even more difficult for an Omega to even think about it. If this continues, it is better to be gay..."

Chuncao said: "Your thinking is a bit dangerous, comrade, don't give up life so easily, okay?"

"It's not a scourge to be gay. After the virus continues, the future of mankind will be gay. But then again, if I want to do it, I will definitely not choose the captain..."

Zhou Rong: "?"

"Yan Hao is a good candidate." Guo Weixiang thought for a while, and then vetoed himself: "It's a pity that Yan Hao is too strong. If he continues to develop like this, sooner or later he will grow into a Vajra Barbie. What if..."

Yan Hao heard his name, and turned around from another round table: "What are you talking about?"

Chuncao laughed and said, "Xiangzi is discussing the possibility of messing with you."

Yan Hao seemed to have heard some joke, pointing to himself and then to Guo Weixiang: "—Who's messing with who, let's try it tonight buddies?"

Guo Weixiang hurriedly raised his hands to beg for mercy, and suddenly caught a glimpse of Sinan from the other side of the dining table, and hurriedly said, "Yes, you can mess with Sinan!"

Si Nan raised one eye from the edge of the rice bowl and stared at Guo Weixiang coldly.

Comrade Xiangzi laughed loudly, stepped forward and forcibly hooked Sinan's shoulder, but unfortunately there were not many people at the round table to join him.Only Zhou Rong interjected with interest from the sidelines: "Xiangzi, don't make trouble, we, Comrade Xiao Si, don't think much of you."

Guo Weixiang said "Huh?" "Really?"

Si Nan's answer was to move his hands away from his shoulders inch by inch. The movements were calm and unhurried, but his strength could not be refused. He said, "It's good to be a Beta. It's better than an Alpha. Don't belittle yourself."

Guo Weixiang smiled and opened his mouth to say something, only to hear Si Nan say casually:

"If you weren't Beta, I might have regretted the risk of saving you in T City back then."

Guo Weixiang's sentence "but we are not Beta" stuck in his throat, feeling like swallowing an egg raw.

The special forces at the table stared wide-eyed, and Sinan picked up a chopstick of potato shreds, and suddenly realized that the atmosphere was too quiet: "What's wrong?"

"..." Zhou Rong said slowly: "Comrade Xiao Si, did you say something just now? I always thought you were a gender equalityist..."

Si Nan laughed and said, "I've never had gender equality. I've always looked down on Alpha."

After a palpitating silence, Yan Hao finally asked a solemn question: "Why?"

"Don't worry about trouble." Sinan thought for a while, and said flatly: "Nowadays, many Alphas are very weak, and we must devote our energy to protecting them when they encounter danger. And Alpha's deep-rooted chauvinism...Although it is said that they are the best genetically Humans, but in fact it’s just that the evolution of animal nature is not complete.”

He picked up the last bite of rice in the bowl, put down his chopsticks and said unexpectedly: "I'm full, you don't want to eat?"

Under his suspicious gaze, everyone at the table was silent for a long time, neither speaking nor making any movements.

After a while Zhou Rong finally coughed and explained: "We... don't have much appetite today."

The dinner ended in an indescribable silence, and even Chuncao didn't eat her third bowl of rice.

Since setting up camp at the fertilizer factory, two special forces led ten men on patrol every night, while others exercised, exercised, and learned to fight in the courtyard, checking the barbed wire and security facilities around the factory.

However, for some reason, Captain Zhou and Deputy Captain Yan, who taught everyone to fight tonight, were not very energetic. They closed the booth early at 09:30 and asked people to go back to wash and rest.Groups of men, women and children in the courtyard walked towards the dormitory behind the factory. A few young people wanted to pester Zhou Rong to ask something, but suddenly there was a sharp sound of car tires rubbing against the road in the distance.

Zhou Rong suddenly turned around.

In the night outside the factory area, some kind of unnoticed danger is getting closer and closer, bringing restlessness and uneasiness.

Boom!

The back factory door was pushed open, Sinan hurriedly took off his goggles, and the hem of his white coat flew up as he walked, and said in a concentrated voice: "The entrance of the northern industrial area, at one o'clock, 800 meters away."

Zhou Rong calmed down, his perception spread in all directions, and suddenly his pupils tightened slightly——

"Brother Rong!" Chuncao slid down from the tree and rushed towards the ground like a sharp arrow: "A container truck overturned on the north road. There are more than ten survivors. It is extremely attractive to zombies!"

"It is roughly estimated that there are hundreds of zombies nearby, and they are following them to this side!"